Thursday, August 9, 2012

Local food is the best food!

     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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