Your farmers are Cody Condery and Kayla Lindsey. We're a couple, in our mid-twenties from Central AR. We started growing about three years ago, with a tiny garden to save money in our backyard in downtown Conway, AR. We had both been vegetarians for a while, and through that, knew of some of the horrors of industrial agriculture. It wasn't until we started digging deeper into our food supply that we started to realize that the evils of this system extends way beyond animal products. We learned about GMOs being approved with reckless abandon, crops sprayed with so many pesticides and herbicides that the food is toxic, and environmental and human injustices all too common in industrial agriculture, excused by an interest in better yields, at any cost. We learned, with horror, of a food system controlled by a handful of super-companies, who commit attrocities against nature and work to undermine the food sovereignty of other nations (and our own), many who have seeds with histories hundreds of years old.
We had to do something, the most important thing we could think of...we had to grow food, the right way. We had to grow food honestly, food that had history, wasn't mass produced, that contains boundless nutrition, and that doesn't come at the cost of inhumanity and environmental attrocities.
We started an internship at Foundation Farm, a no-till certified organic farm in Eureka Springs, AR. We were hooked! After a short stay at an organic avocado grove in Southern California and another job at an organic market farm around Little Rock, AR, we decided to come back up to the NW Arkansas/ SW Missouri area to start our own organic farm. We were extremely fortunate to meet Tex Pfingsten, an elderly farmer with a lifetime of experience and knowledge, and a 1/3 acre of land, organically grown since the late 60's, that he was willing to let us use. We moved up to the farm in December 2012 and got started with a good source of compost (from pasture-raised cows) and some spoiled hay for mulch.
We had to do something, the most important thing we could think of...we had to grow food, the right way. We had to grow food honestly, food that had history, wasn't mass produced, that contains boundless nutrition, and that doesn't come at the cost of inhumanity and environmental attrocities.
We started an internship at Foundation Farm, a no-till certified organic farm in Eureka Springs, AR. We were hooked! After a short stay at an organic avocado grove in Southern California and another job at an organic market farm around Little Rock, AR, we decided to come back up to the NW Arkansas/ SW Missouri area to start our own organic farm. We were extremely fortunate to meet Tex Pfingsten, an elderly farmer with a lifetime of experience and knowledge, and a 1/3 acre of land, organically grown since the late 60's, that he was willing to let us use. We moved up to the farm in December 2012 and got started with a good source of compost (from pasture-raised cows) and some spoiled hay for mulch.