Mission: To train growers for four season organic food production (from backyard farmers to growing for a living) and to inspire and educate children and adults about the value of local organic food and healthy living. 

Winter Green has demonstrated for two seasons at Community High School in Swannanoa that we can successfully grow cool weather crops in western North Carolina during the winter.

Winter Green provides green jobs. Both our current employee (a young mother of two) and our initial apprentice from a green jobs training program for low-income youth have discovered a possible entrepreneurial opportunity in urban agriculture. 

Winter Green is a team. Joan Engelhardt and Pat Hinkley co-founded and organize the nonprofit organization. Site manager Mike Adams and grower Sherrell Cuthbertson are employed to grow vegetables in hoophouses and low tunnels from September through May. Mike builds small hoophouses available to individuals, schools and neighborhoods. See store for more info.



Thank you to our volunteers:

 Linda Patterson
Roberta Greenspan
Ashley McFarland
Gary Schwartz
Brother Hug
Stanley Gray

Karen Vizzina
Sherry Vaughan
Michael Torres
Jan Moran
Amanda Green

 

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