Red-winged_32Red Wing Farm is a small farm in the Swannanoa Valley in the mountains of western North Carolina. We grow heirloom vegetables using ecologically responsible and sustainable growing practices. We operate a diverse, four-season vegetable, herb, and flower garden.

Red Wing Farm is committed to “deep organic” growing practices which far exceed organic standards.  Our vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit are naturally grown with no herbicides, fungicides, chemical pesticides, or petrochemical fertilizers. We cultivate, plant, and harvest from permanent raised beds by hand using human-powered and human-scale tools and practices (we do not use a tractor). We start annual vegetables from seed and harvest year-round from raised beds in our unheated hoophouse.

lettuce 007We incorporate permaculture principles and biointensive practices into the design and management of our homestead and gardens. We begin with open-pollinated, heirloom seeds and are committed to preserving seed sovereignty and keeping food traditions alive.

In addition to fresh produce, other products available seasonally are: garlic and onions, potatoes, winter squash, dry black beans, seeds and plants, and various live-culture foods such as brine pickles and sauerkraut.garlic 2008015

Red Wing Farm hosts educational and community events, workshops, and classes related to organic gardening, simple living, food preservation, sustainability, community, health and wellness, and ecology.  We also have an internship program and work-exchange opportunities for short-term volunteers who want to learn about permaculture, biointensive methods, modern homesteading, and organic gardening.

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We are stewards of five acres of river bottom land that we intend to preserve as farmland and wildlife habitat in perpetuity. We are committed to leaving the soil, water, and air healthier than we found them.

Contact us

Phone: 828.298.0957

Email: redwingfarmer@gmail.com

or click here: redwingfarmer [at] gmail [dot] com

By mail:  PO Box 42 / Asheville, NC  28802



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  • Winter Hiatus
    We are not offering produce in January and February.  But there are all kinds of things growing in our hoophouse and coldframes that we'll be offering in early Spring. We'll have Spring greens and other vegetables as well as supercharged plant starts beginning  in March, and starting April 20, we'll ... […]
  • December 2009
    For sale this month from Red Wing Farm: Sorrel; French Dinant heirloom Celery; Winter Squash: Butternut, Delicata, and Thelma Sanders Sweet Potato Squash; Potatoes: Ozette, La Ratte French Fingerling, and Early Rose; Garlic: Killarney Red, Inchelium Red, Silverwhite Silverskin, Nookta Rose Silverskin, Idaho Silverskin, Georgian Crystal Porcelain; Cher […]
  • November 2009
    For sale this month from Red Wing Farm: Potatoes: Maris Piper, German Butterball, La Ratte French Fingerling, Ozette. Garlic: Killarney Red, Inchelium Red, Silverwhite Silverskin, Nookta Rose Silverskin, Idaho Silverskin, Georgian Crystal Porcelain. Cherokee Trail of Tears Black Beans (dry, shelled). Waltham Butternut Squash. Braising Mix (kales, chard […]