Farm Happenings for October 11, 2022

Week 21~ Next week is our LAST week of the Fall Season! Please be sure and mark your calendar for Saturday November 5th! This is our annual Family Farm Day! We LOVE to host our families at our farm on this day. It's a wonderful time to see the farm, meet our farmers, take a wagon ride around the fields and pick your own produce. We will have pony cart rides for the kids and even some bareback horse rides. Your family will love it! Pack a lunch and come spend the day with us!

This week we have some Rome Apples and Arkansas Black Apples from the Miller farm. These apples are not organic, but they are minimally sprayed. Remember, the average age of an apple at the grocery store is 14 months. These apples are fresh picked and loaded with nutrients! Enjoy! We also have a small number of our field peas. They are delicious, just shell them and cook! They are creamy and so good! The greens are still coming in strong as are the peppers, winter squash, potatoes and hibiscus. The hibiscus flowers make a lovely tea. Just peel the leaves off of the pod, let them dry on a paper towel and then store in a mason jar. You will have tea all winter. The key is to make sure that the leaves are totally dry - don't skimp on this part! :)

Have a wonderful week, friends!

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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