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25th Annual Spring Conference
March 9 @ 9:00 am - March 11 @ 6:00 pm
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Title: 25th Annual Organic Growers School Spring Conference
For healthy eaters, home growers, & farmers!
Date: March 9-11, 2018
Time: 9 am to 6:00 pm on both days
Location: UNCA in Asheville, North Carolina
Cost: Full Weekend: $99 before 1/31, $129 after 1/31/18
Saturday Only: $59 before 1/31, $74 after 1/31/18
Sunday Only: $49 before 1/31, $64 after 1/31/18
The Spring Conference offers practical, regionally-appropriate workshops on organic growing, permaculture, homesteading, urban farming, and rural living plus a trade show, seed exchange, silent auction, children’s program, and pre-conference, on-farm events. More than 70 sessions per day in themed tracks including Gardening, Soils, Livestock, Primitive Skills, Permaculture, Herbs, Alternative Energy, Sustainable Forestry, Homesteading, Cooking, Poultry, Farmers I and Farmers II, Mushrooms and Food Resilience.