Featured Local Growers in USA & Canada

Local growers are an essential part of every community and help ensure food security. At Garden Culture Magazine, we like to shine the spotlight on four of them in every single issue. Our world is full of farmers and gardeners who care about the environment, nutritious and ethically-produced food, and the people they feed. In this section, we invite you to get to know your local growers.

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Local Growers

IN THIS ISSUE

POP! Microgreens

POP! Microgreens believes the solution to many of our food issues is local sourcing and is helping the community of Montpelier, VT eat fresh year-round.

Lil Green Urban Farm

Lil Green Urban Farm is hooked on hydroponics, providing families and businesses in Calgary with fresh, locally grown microgreens year-round.

Les Jardins des Lakou

Les Jardins des Lakou is a bio-intensive, organic micro-farm that focuses on growing Afro-Caribbean fruits and vegetables.

Assawaga Farm

Assawaga Farm specializes in growing Japanese crops not commonly found in the U.S., such as Mizuna, Komatsuna, and Japanese peppers and eggplants.

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Three Acre Farm

Byron Center, Michigan, USA

Three Acre Farm in Byron Center, MI wants everyone to experience the many joys flowers bring. A U-Pick Flower Garden helps make that possible.

Rock Steady Farm & Flowers

Millerton, New York, USA

LGBTQAI+ owned and run, Rock Steady Farm & Flowers in Millerton, NY, offers a safe space for people of all races, genders, and sexual orientations to thrive.

Bray Grove Farm

Grundy County, Illinois, United States

Lovely compost teas and ferments replace chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, and a carefully scheduled rotation of produce and cover crops help preserve the soil.

First Light Farm

Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

First Light Farm grows food with the environment and local community in mind; their market gardening production style seeks to turn undeveloped land into rich and nutritious food sources for their neighbors.

Upland Organics

Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada

Upland Organics is a family-run certified organic grain farm. On over 2,000 acres of land, they grow pulses, cereals, and oilseeds.

Five Marys Farms

Siskiyou County, California, United States

Five Marys Farms old-world butchery method means only one animal is dealt with at a time, and all of their products undergo a 21 to 28-day dry-aging process.

Rise and Root Farm

New York, New York, USA

What happens when a group of four women comes together to grow food? Magical things. Rise & Root Farm is committed to connecting the rural and urban communities in the Big Apple through gardening and farming.

Woven Roots Farm

Tyringham, MA, USA

Healthy soil leads to healthy people; for 20 years, Woven Roots Farm has been nurturing both by respecting the earth and the microorganisms that live in it.

Polyface Farm

Swoope, Virginia, USA

Three generations of the Salatin family have tirelessly planted trees, built compost piles, dug ponds, and moved cows daily with portable electric fencing.

Porcupine Experimental Forest Farm

Wentworth-North, Quebec, Canada

Following permaculture principals, they built their soil by hand, tirelessly layering leaves, cardboard, mulch, grass clippings, and other organic materials like a lasagna.

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