The goals of this grant are to: 1) keep tobacco and vegetables as an economic underpinning of western North Carolina’s agricultural economy; 2) transition tobacco growers to organic burley tobacco production; 3) transition tobacco growers to vegetable production; 4) establish education and demonstration projects for farmers; 5) establish the High Country Organic Growers’ School; and 6) prepare an organic transition website/manual for burley tobacco growers.
