Hello!
I run a small, but growing subsistence farm, that provides local farmers and artisans, with a place to sell their produce and goods. We also have a walk through home micro farm, and composting lecture, to teach people how to grow most, or all of their own seasonal produce for free! Along with organic composting,
from apartments, to large scale farms. The farm also does tours and
lessons on using spent crop, and flower waste, household garbage, waste
paper to grow beautiful, organic mushrooms, turning the spent material into composted fertilizer for the following crop season! Things could not be going better since starting my vision of a fully "off the grid"
subsistence farm, that I could draw people to with beautiful, cheap,
LOCAL, produce, and goods, then show them how make a difference in the
environment, our communities, and our economy all at the same time, and
be able to offer this service for free!
We even give out free kettle corn to the kids on sundays! lol Anyways,
I am very excited to let people know more about what we do, and
hopefully will be able to answer many questions about how I did it, how
you can do it, or how you can do any of the wonderful things are staff
love to talk about day to day. We live our lives in devotion to this
planet, and all of the wonderful creatures living here along side us.
We know people want to make a change, but sometimes it is just hard to
know where to begin. What better place to start, than at home, and in
your own towns and cities. Let's bring good organic farming back to
this country, and put high fructose corn syrup, and Chinese imported
vegetables to the side, and make a real difference together! Did you
know that the average food item on your table traveled 2,200 miles to
get there. How does that carbon footprint taste? Health care
skyrocketing from obesity, diabetes, weight loss, heart disease, BAD
EATING HABITS, because America doesn't even know what is in the food
they are eating half of the time. This is something you and I can do to
make a difference. Importing of food from other countries is so cheap,
that they will pay for thousands of gallons of diesel fuel to get it
here to stock our local grocery store. Most of the food in your grocery
didn't even come from the U.S. Which means it took tons of carbon to
get that food here, and yet our American farmers resort to growing corn
for the refined sugar industry. It is found in every needless soft
drink, complete with non-biodegradable plastic bottle, that are
consumed in the hundreds of thousands a day in this country, and for
what? Do we really need to drink, and eat this garbage, when it
provides no nutrition, and only negatively impacts our health. Waste
packaging, food importing pollution, health care failure, economic
failure is all avoidable simply by growing local, buying local,
thinking about what you eat, and what is really important in your life.
I welcome any and all questions, and hope to share some of what we have
learned along with way in the most amazing journey.. down on the farm.
