Niche Crops
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Pawpaw Fruit Tree
Niche crops a.k.a Specialty crops
are new and emerging crops that have not been commercially grown in a particular region, like the pawpaw seen above. The methods for producing specialty crops generally introduces farmers to a new way of growing. As always before you plant a crop, consider the crop’s destination. What market will be best served by your crop?
The North Carolina Specialty Crops Program was a multi-agency, statewide program dedicated to new crop development.
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Below are resources for beginners and those with more experience in growing niche crops.
- Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition
- New Crops & Organics webpage with MANY resources
- Omri approved products information (Products that Certified Organic Growers can and can’t use)
- General growers resource lists Great jumping off point for comparing options to source products
Herbs
- Herb Growers buyer meeting june 1 (mills river)
- About Herb Vouchers from the most recent voucher workshop
Heritage Apples
- A man with lots of local apple knowledge- Heritage Apples
Microgreens
- Microgreen Nutrition – includes summaries of research findings and links to the source studies (Healthline)
- Basics and seed density examples and calculations (PennState Extension)
- Seed density calculator A spreadsheet to help you answer the question: How many seeds should I plant in my X sized container?” (PennState Extension)
- General guide including an example input/cost breakdown and yield data (PennState Extension)
- A seed company’s microgreen trial -in
cludes yields and days to harvest for several microgreen types (Johnny’s Seeds)
Mushrooms
- Mushrooms Classes and Spawn Sources
- Deep Woods Mushrooms(Mills River)
- The Fungal Network (Pinnacle)
- Cornell Extension – Growing Mushrooms
Pawpaws
NC’s largest native fruit. The tropical taste echoes a banana in flavor and a mango in appearance. It’s the host plant for the zebra swallowtail butterfly and is pollinated by carrion flies. River and creek riparian zones need them for their role in soil conservation. Forsyth County has an annual pawpaw field day.
Hardy Kiwi
- Fuzzy Kiwi need a male and female plant to yield well. At our building we have Saanichton (female) which produced SUPER well last year with Tomuri as our male plant.