For Our CSA Members:
For Everyone:
These are other amazing certified organic farms that we purchase food from that we do not grow. They have online stores and ship. We highly recommend all of them!
Full Belly Farm (Guinda, CA) - olive oil, almond butter, almonds, walnuts, cornmeal, whole wheat flour
Dayspring Farms (Danielsville, GA) - flour of all types, grits, cornmeal
Working Cows Dairy (Slocomb, AL) - grass-fed butter and cheese, their milk is also at the Chattanooga Whole Foods
Blue House Farm (San Gregorio, CA) - heirloom beans of all types
Pachamama Coffee - 100% farmer-owned cooperative coffee beans
Organic family/small seed companies:
Common Wealth Seed Growers - "a cooperative project to research, breed, produce and sell regionally-adapted, open-pollinated seeds for a limited number of outstanding varieties." A cooperative of farmers across TN, VA, and NC researching, breeding, and producing regionally adapted seed. While operating on an honest farmer budget, they've bred and re-discovered cucurbit varieties that far exceed the disease resistance those of the best-funded seed companies and universities.
Wood Prairie Farm - seed potatoes from organic pioneers and activists
Jones Family Farm - sweetpotato slips
Organic Farming Advocacy:
Real Organic Project - a farmer-led movement created to distinguish soil-grown and pasture-raised products under USDA organic. In other words, organic farmers actively resisting the corporate dilution of organic standards and enforcement.
Wild Farm Alliance - excellent farmer resources for bird benefits/habitat and conservation biocontrol for insects.
Organic Farming Study Resources:
Farmer-to-Farmer Podcast - Chris Blanchard set out to create "the best farming podcast in the world" and absolutely succeeded. He created the greatest vault of organic vegetable farming knowledge in the world before passing away in 2018. These conversations w/ legendary farmers immensely influenced our farm - thank you Chris!
Managing Cover Crops Profitably - the best book on cover crops ever written.
Wholesale Success - packshed design, harvest tips, storage parameters
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook - required reading. cost of production calculations, budgets, field equipment systems, time management and organization
Journey to Forever - free library of historical organic farming.
-An Agricultural Testament - Albert Howard, 1940
-Farmers of Forty Centuries - F.H. King, 1911
-The Soil and Health - Albert Howard, 1945
-Fertility Farming - Newman Turner, 1951
-The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits - Charles Darwin, 1881
USDA Farmers' Bulletins - old school knowledge that's now mostly forgotten. try searching "cover crop" or "green manure"
Answers on the Meaning of Life:
MLK, Jr. Speeches - Audio spanning 1954 - 1968 from the man who drew from Tolstoy's philosophy on love and non-violent resistance and Ghandi's lifelong actions and successes with these - and changed the nation and shook the world, leaving us with a roadmap to the "peace race" and his Beloved Community.
"Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured."
-Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, National Cathedral Washington 03/31/1968
"Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
-Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech, University of Oslo, 12/10/1964