# Success Stories: NRCS’ Work with Organic Producers

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Learn more about organic farming through our featured success stories.

### Advance Payment Helps Extend the Season

November 01, 2019

Meet Alisha Utter and Kyle Bowley, of Arbor Farmstead in Grand Isle, Vermont. Their seven-acre veganic farm grows diversified perennial fruit alongside restorative woodland.

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### Healing Patients on the Farm: Dr. Ron Weiss

February 14, 2019

Most people don’t look forward to spending time at their doctor’s office, but Dr. Ron Weiss’s office isn’t typical of most health care facilities. His practice, Ethos Health, is in the center of an organic fruit and vegetable farm in Long Valley, New Jersey.

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### Michigan Organic Farm Stands in ‘Good Stead’

March 28, 2018

Meet Sarah Longstreth, founder of Good Stead Farm, a source of fresh, local organic food in Midland County, Michigan for more than 60 families as well as local restaurants and farmers market. 

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### Organic Producer Delivers Cranberries to the Table

November 22, 2017

Meet John and Nora Stauner, owners and operators of James Lake Farms, an organic cranberry marsh in Oneida County, Wisconsin.

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### From Washington, D.C. to Africa, to Farming in Alabama

October 19, 2017

Meet Gene Thornton of Sneaky Crow Farm in Roanoke, Alabama and learn how he works with Mother Nature to produce organic fruits and vegetables for his community.

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### Small-Scale Conservation Brings Big Yields for Fiddlehead Farm in Oregon

October 06, 2017

Katie Coppoletta shares the benefits of conservation planning on a smaller organic farm in Corbett, Oregon.

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### Iowa Farmer Uses Roller Crimper in Organic No-Till System

July 01, 2017

After reading the book Organic No-Till Farming by Jeff Moyer, Levi Lyle was motivated to reduce the use of chemicals and tillage when he moved back to the family farm about five years ago.

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### Taking the High Ground and Farming With Nature

April 21, 2017

Meet the owners of High Ground Organics Farm in Watsonville, California, Jeanne Byrne and Stephen Pedersen, who work hard to make the effects on surrounding wildlife and water quality beneficial ones.

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### Watering Crops the Scientific Way

March 31, 2017

Visit Front Field Organic Farm in Winterville, Georgia for a first-hand look at an irrigation water conservation plan in action.

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### Growing Organic: NRCS Assistance for Organic Farmers

August 12, 2016

Organic is one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture, with demand steadily outpacing the U.S. supply. Organic agriculture and NRCS’ goals are well aligned. Many of the USDA Organic regulations can be achieved using NRCS conservation practices, which reflect these shared goals.

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### Depending on the Wild to Pollinate

June 27, 2016

Organic orchard grower Deirdre Birmingham makes a conservation impact on her land where she and her husband have 10 acres of trees and a seasonal high tunnel full of healthy seedlings.

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##   Related Content

### Technical and Financial Assistance for Organic Producers

NRCS offers technical and financial assistance through conservation practices, activities and enhancements to help organic producers make and maintain improvements on their land. 

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### Success Stories: NRCS' Work with High Tunnel

Learn about the benefits of high tunnels with our success stories.

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### NRCS Organic Training and Webinars

Resources for finding upcoming and pre-recorded webinars related to organic agriculture.

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