Grow your own staples with Sweet Potato slips & Seed Potatoes

Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes are spring-shipped seasonal items: order now to receive your slips and roots this spring.

• Sweet Potatoes thrive throughout the United States, anywhere with at least 4 months of frost-free growing season. Simply transplant your purchased slips (the green shoots) out to the garden. We provide a free online Sweet Potato Growing Guide. To get started growing your own slips, see our new post on sprouting sweet potatoes. Our Certified Organic sweet potato slips ship from our farm mid-May through early June.
• Potatoes aren't just for farmers: even small gardens can produce bountiful potato crops. Increase your yields by hilling or trenching, or try a potato box: build the box higher around the plants as they grow, so you can effectively "hill" the plants higher. You can find great growing tips in this interview with our grower Jim Gerritsen. Our Certified Organic Irish-type Seed Potatoes ship directly from our grower’s farm beginning in March.

Spring Events  

We'll be at these great events with seeds and Ira's book. Stop by and visit!

Our powerful online Garden Planner lets you easily manage your garden. Try the Garden Planner FREE for one month!

Organic Seed Workshops in North Carolina Next Week

The Organic Seed Alliance's John Navazio is giving three workshops this month, in Goldsboro, Greensboro, and Mills River, North Carolina, March 17, 18, and 20:

On-farm Variety Trials, Seed Production, and Plant Breeding -- A Primer for North Carolina Organic Vegetable Growers

Learn more and register today.

Fruit Grafting & Propagation All Day Intensive

Join Alexis Zeigler for his popular intensive grafting & propogation workshop. This year the workshop is being offered twice:

Saturday, April 5th
OR
Sunday, April 6th
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Read the full flyer (PDF)