I have never "blogged" before so I apologize ahead of time for my infant blogging skills. That being said I want to share with you something very important to me. Local, fresh, health, organic food! First let me tell you about me. I am the owner/operator of WowsaFarm.com. It is a new website and online store that offers my fresh, organic produce straight off of our off-grid farm. The farm has been in our family since 1912 when my great grandfather
bought it. It is situated in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of western North
Carolina less than 20 miles west of Boone. Over the last 100 years it has become harder and harder for my
family and most other small farmers to make it competing with large
corporation owned farms. Most recently my family had just stopped
farming completely. The destruction of the tobacco crop market
virtually ended a struggling industry for most of us farmers here in
beautiful western North Carolina.
After being in the restaurant
industry for over half my life, getting into management, and eventually
being General Manager of several restaurants, I decided I really wanted
to work for myself. I became very homesick at the same time, realizing
that the old family farm was being badly neglected and about to be
reclaimed by the jungle of the Appalachain mountains if something wasn't
done soon. It was then I finally decided to change my life and to pursue
my real passions. We cannot allow ourselves to loose our history and
heritage and we need to latch on to nature, natural foods and life
itself! I quit everything and moved the 2600 miles back home to be a
farmer.
I have spent the last 3 years working on the farm to
get it back to productivity. I don't want to do anything completely
new,
in fact I want to do most things like my great grandfather did them. He
understood how to be sustainable because that was the only way to
get it done. I want to take that and improve on it, so I went back to
school to study sustainable agriculture and have been working hard to
clear fields, rebuild structures, and get the farm running again. I
have invested my heart, soul, time, and ALL of my capital into this
amazing farm and finally have fields producing and the soil tests on the
newly re-claimed fields look great! I have built two greenhouses, put
in new water lines and with a little luck and a little help, we have
plans to grow and expand
operations while still staying off-grid and organic.
If you like organic produce, local food, the idea of sustainable agriculture, CrossFit, the Paleo Diet, or just feeling great and eating fresh then our online store was made just for you! If you live in the Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, neighborhood you probably qualify for free delivery also! Don't wait, please visit my store today and use the code bonus10 and get 10% off your entire order. This is a limited time offer so don't wait! SHOP HERE!
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