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Green Hill Urban Farm
30 Green Hill Ave.
Asheville, NC 28806
Contact Us
828-775-0548
greenhillurbanfarm@gmail.com
Meet Our Team Members
Mike FortuneTom Roach
Bill Whipple
Adam Strange
Caitlin Gliedman
Community Supported Agriculture
2011 is our fourth year offering services in a CSA format, which we continue to adjust and experiment with as we learn in order to provide the most benefits to our shareholders that we can afford.
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Asheville, NC
"Green Hill seeks to provide convenient access to neo-agrarian culture and sustainable food to the surrounding Asheville area."
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Barkslip's Micro Nursery has 350 fruit trees for sale
I have been busy this summer tending my new crop of fruit trees and I want to tell you about them and why I raise them. I am passionate about Barkslips Micro nursery because of many reasons. First off they look great. Between the abundance of rain we had this summer, Mike Fortune's support at Green Hill Urban farm, and my son Eli's bio gas methane fertilizer sludge, the one year old trees range from 4- 7 feet tall and show tremendous vigor."Since variety is the spice of life" the second reason is to introduce many lost fruit varieties back into our lives. I have gone to great lengths to acquire many obscure varieties that bring a varied diversity to us. There are so many varieties of fruit that have been commercially discarded because you cant throw them against a wall, store them for 6 months, send them around the world and have them still look like they are made of plastic. I'm talking dessert, cooking, sauce, pie, cider apples that produce fruit from end of July to November that have there own nuances of flavor and characteristics which lend themselves to a multitude of purposes. That is over 3 months of tree picked apples for many culinary purposes with some storing well into the following Spring, extending the season to eight months fresh eating! Thirdly, knowing that 20% of our fossil fuel consumption comes from food production, storage, processing, packaging, and transportation, any, no matter how small an effort, to grow some of our own food is a huge benefit to greenhouse gas reduction. Perennial crops like fruit trees require far less inputs of time and materials, and soil disruption than annual crops that are found in gardens and crop fields. Trees sequester large amount of carbon and moisture from the atmosphere. Fourthly, there is nothing like fresh grown food for taste, nutrition, and emotional well being. Knowing that you played a part in the growing of food can bring a sense of true use and connection in the world. Fiftthly , Bill Mollison, the God father of permaculture observes, "If you have a lot of fruit, you have a lot of friends." Sixthly, My trees are propagated by me in Asheville on a very small scale and I raise them with no chemical inputs or herbicides. I want to see which trees can thrive in this region without needing industrial inputs. In a word, these are local trees created in the spirit of building our own independent, sustainable, agricultural infrastructure. Seventhly, when you buy trees from Barkslip's you keep your money in the community and dont send it out west where a lot of the corporate mega nurseries are. You also encourage me, a community activist, that donates and plants trees in schools and in public places, stewards the Edible park, operates Barkslip's Fruit school, and spends time with our youth teaching them about fruit and community service, to go out and find more varieties of fruit and nuts to share. So next time you go to the big box stores and are lured by some fruit tree grown, who knows where? with God knows what? by who knows who? at a bottom discount price that is impossible to refuse. By all means, buy it. Then call me, and I'll come over and graft 10 different varieties onto it.
I know I left something out but I think you get the gist of it.
Regards, T. Bud Barkslip
I have a little problem though. I cant find a place to plant all these trees, and am looking for loving foster homes for them.
Please go to Barkslip.com for more details.
Adoption costs- 30.00/tree 25.00/tree/10 trees They will be reserved on a first come basis.
They will be available in late November. We will have a 'dig up day' after the trees have gone dormant and people can come and pick up their orders. The Nursery is located off of Patton Avenue in West Asheville. Take a right onto Deaverview and then an immediate left onto Green Hill and the farm is on your right. You can go to Greenhillurbanfarm.com to get more info.
please send check and contact info to:
Bill Whipple
70 Alabama avenue
Asheville, NC 28806
Feel free to call 828 713 2424 with questions
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News & Updates
Fri Jan 28 2011
We believe in giving access to food to the less fortunate. We donate annually to the Society of St. Andrew and Manna Food Bank.
Wed Dec 29 2010
After a short test period, it is official, Torpedo, a 2 year old golden cascade/khaki campbell has become the newest member of the Green Hill flock. She has taught the flock to break dance, likes to quack, and enjoys 33 degree baths daily. Welcome Torpedo.
Mon Sep 13 2010
Caitlin Gliedman is proud to now offer eggs from her flock of ten beautiful birds.