High Mowing Organic Non-GMO Seeds

  1. Building Resilience into the Food System - The Story of Salvation Farms

    If you were to visit High Mowing Organic Seeds last winter on a Sunday, you might have found Theresa Snow wandering the fulfillment aisles, filling orders and getting some weekend hours into her busy schedule. You wouldn’t know it from a quiet weekend at our warehouse, but Theresa and High Mowing have a history of collaboration that goes back more...
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  2. Farming and Beyond: Sustaining Your Interest and Intellect Year after Year

    Becky Maden is the Assistant Farm Manager at Intervale Community Farm (ICF), a thriving member-owned CSA farm in its 21st season of growing organic produce in Burlington, Vermont. Becky has worked on several diverse vegetable farms throughout the country and around the world. At ICF, Becky is either found in the greenhouse, on a tractor, or jogging between the two...
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  3. The Essence of Quality Control at High Mowing

    “Quality Control is the circulatory system of a seed company, where the seeds are constantly cycling their way through,” says Melanie Hernandez, our Germination Testing Specialist. Melanie oversees all the QC operations here at High Mowing Organic Seeds.  Before joining us at High Mowing, she owned a certified organic transplant nursery outside Atlanta, GA, where she germinated millions of seeds. ...
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  4. Making Your Farm Accessible to Low-Income Customers

    In the spring of 2010, with one season of farming under my belt and the travel bug planted inside me, I moved to Alaska to work as a School Garden Supervisor for Calypso Farm and Ecology Center.  My job was to teach garden lessons in the spring and fall when school was in session, and to supervise and teach student...
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  5. 2014 Catalog Sneak Preview: New Varieties!

    Spoiler alert! Here’s a sneak peek of some of the new varieties you’ll find in our 2014 catalog, arriving soon in mailboxes near you. We hope you like them as much as we do! You can find all of these new varieties and many more in the catalog and on our website. Organic Murdoc F1 Hybrid Cabbage 80 days to...
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  6. I Love Winter Squash - Harvesting, Storing, & Curing Winter Squash

    When I was a little baby, I have been told, I loved winter squash so much that it was fed to me so often that I got sick of it, and then I refused it for the next 25 years - "The Lost Years". Then when we moved to Vermont and started working on farms, it was winter squash this...
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  7. High Mowing’s Seed Cleaning Facility

    Seed quality is the cornerstone of High Mowing Organic Seeds. Everyone here at High Mowing works in some way to grow, trial, sell, or ship well-adapted organic seed of wide varietal selection that germinates well. Our success depends on clean seed. The seed cleaning process at High Mowing is two-tiered. We clean seed crops in the field before they come...
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  8. Disease Prevention in High Tunnel Production

    Organic growers are increasingly choosing to grow year-round in high tunnels, in part to avoid the diseases encountered by field crops. Not only do high tunnels provide physical exclusion from airborne disease, but the environmental conditions necessary for the presence of many disease pathogens simply do not occur in high tunnel production. Of course disease is not eliminated entirely in...
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  9. Our Food Preservation Favorites: Recipes from High Mowing Seedsters

    It’s finally that wonderful time of year when the garden is full of produce, but here in Vermont a chill nips the ears and neck on early morning harvest missions. Many of us have already seen the first frosty weather, so now is the time, before a hard frost claims our heat-loving eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, and cucurbits, to claim those...
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  10. A Cold Frame for Many Occasions

    The dog days of summer are dwindling and the cooler temps of September have commenced in Northeastern VT.  Season extension has been a hot topic in our region as of late, and so many folks are scrambling to get ready for the impending frosts - wishing to hold on to some late season crops, and further yearning for winter greens...
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