Arugulas Star Farm Now in 2011, Future Goals, & Windfall Agrarian Initiative

Arugula’s Star Farm in 2011 will still be taking a small step back in the cultivated volume of fresh food that we have produced in the past, due to the May 2010 floods, and in order to be better equipped in the facilitation of huge steps forward in the future. We will not be offering a 28-week CSA season, or the Arugula's Star On-Line Produce Store for Elmington Park deliveries, nor bulk sells to The Whole Foods Market in Green Hills.   Instead, we are limiting ourselves to an acre of organic vegetable production and will only have limited amounts of seasonal fruits and vegetables for On-Farm pick-up customers only. 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, seed saving, and taking measures to rebuild the swept away top soils  from the 2010 floods by putting a large percentage of our growing fields in a perennial grass/legume cover crop to then sit fallow. 

In a few years, we hope to be able to move forward with our established 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 send us an e-mail or give us a call.

We foresee our decisions and works in 2011, 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.