Farm Happenings for October 6-8, 2020

Hi Friends,

We had a wonderful first week of the Fall season. Thank you for your support and encouragement! If you receive some of our Hibiscus Roselle, we recommend drying the flower pods for a few days on your counter, then removing the petals from the seed pod. You can store these petals in a mason jar and enjoy fresh tea all winter. Hibiscus is known for it's high vitamin C content and is great for lowering blood pressure.

We are excited to see our Green Beans starting to come in. We don't have enough for everyone this week, but hope to have a bumper crop in the next week or so! If you enjoy eggplant, we have several of those available this week as well. Our kale is just starting to come in - we should have more on the way soon! Turnip Greens are always a big hit at our house. We love to cook them in broth for a while until very wilted and then serve with white beans and corn bread!

We are making plans for our Family Farm Day in November. We plan to host the event at the Farm in Scottsville, Ky on Saturday November 14th. It will be a fun-filled day of wagon rides, farm tours, pony rides and plenty of time to talk all things farming! Make plans to join us!

We are partnering again with Whitaker Farms in Gallatin, TN for the Winter Meat CSA. If you are interested in signing up, please let me know! We are giving away free pastured eggs for anyone who signs up and mentions Farmhouse Nashville. We will also have pastured turkeys available again this season as well!

Hope you have a wonderful week, friends! This weather seems to make every day a good day!!

Farmhouse Nashville was born out of necessity. As a mother of four young children, I desired to feed my family nourishing food, healing food, local food and affordable food. I was disheartened at the prices of organic and was determined not to feed my family food that was from factory farms and laden with chemicals, pesticides and shipped in from thousands of miles away! Was that even possible? Seventeen years ago I joined a raw milk co-op in West Nashville. It was a step in the right direction. Our raw milk farmer was an Old Order Mennonite farmer. We were thrilled to have found a source for affordable, clean, healthy milk. Finding organic produce in this same community was a lot harder than I envisioned. It is a myth that Amish and Mennonite farmers are organic. Only two farmers in this community are growing organically. After months of searching, I discovered Golden Rule farm growing against the "grain" of the community. They were convinced and convicted that organic farming was the only way to grow nourishing, flavorful foods that would heal not only our bodies, but the land. Our partnership was only the beginning of this story. We started offering CSA shares to friends and family in Lebanon, then Mount Juliet and today, we serve hundreds of families in Middle Tennessee. Our commitment to nutrient-dense produce, pasture raised eggs and meats is undeniable. We work together to offer food that is not only healthier but affordable for families. We believe that foods grown organically are naturally best, but we also know that foods raised without the use of pesticides, chemicals and herbicides are healing the land. We use trace minerals and nutrients to enrich the soil. Organic is good, but nutrient-dense is better! Come share in the harvest and see and taste the difference of Fresh, Local, Real Food!

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