Arugulas Star Farm Now in 2010, Future Goals, & Windfall Agrarian Initiative

Arugula’s Star Farm in 2010 is taking a small step back in the cultivated volume of fresh food that we have produced in the past, in order to be better equipped in the facilitation of huge steps forward in the future. We will not be offering our normal 28-week CSA season. Instead, we will be offering e-mail direct sells of some limited seasonal amounts of vegetables, fruits, and herbs.  By not growing as much food in the fields this year, the extra time we are allocating ourselves will be used to work on infrastructure projects, farm system improvements, organic agriculture educational agendas, and turning more of our available fallow lands into cover cropping systems. 

Most importantly, we will be working on the establishment of a public 501(c)(3) non-profit named Windfall Agrarian Initiative… “Providing a working knowledge in the fields of organic agriculture and environmental stewardship with the younger generations of today on the conserved rural lands of tomorrow and for the ever needed diversified and localized food production of the future.”

To learn more, and to see how you with others can join in the advocacy to show your much needed support by becoming involved and making a tax-free donation please see www.windfallagrarianinitiative.org  (sometime within the 2010 year, Windfall Agrarian Initiative website will be up and going, but until then if you have any interest in becoming involoved please contact us here at Arugula's Star Farm)

We foresee our decisions and works in 2010, helping to create a stronger force that can establish and accomplish the following goals for the current and future generations of the leipers creek valley and all other hill-top and hollow-bottoms of the middle TN area: 

• Complete Organic Farm Systems that generate locally available, nutritionally dense food

• Educational outreach on topics of organic foods, organic agriculture, functional and structural sustaining ecosystems, & land conservation and stewardship

• Hands-on Agrarian Intern Programs: opportunities for the younger folk to live, work, and learn on one of the complete organic farming systems  

• The Sharecroppers Exchange: young farmers, given the opportunity to live along with and work another’s  land, in exchange for accessibility to a land, a share of the crop, and genuine organic farming experience.  Empowering one to work hard in the heat and cold to nurture the crops along that are going to help feed us all.