002 Me, a Farmer?

Many people today are waking to the serious food and health issues facing our culture. For too many years we have ignored these concerns, listened to the wrong voices, and allowed ourselves to be guided down a path that has produced more and more new illnesses, diseases, and dysfunctions. Yet what can we do about it? We no longer live in a manner where most people have enough land to produce their own food. And when we think about farming, the picture in our minds is generally of massive fields, tractors, and big red barns. 

But what if there was another way, another picture we need to hold before our imaginations? 

What if we could produce food in scientifically designed, natural, bio-diverse, sustainable growing systems that allow the cultivation of food and fish on a relatively small footprint of land? 

What if you could grow all you need and some extra to share or sell, and it could only take a few hours each week? 

What if you could grow with little or even no soil, no weeding, no artificial chemicals, harmful pesticides or fertilizers?  

What if the quality of food you produced was better than the premium organic food you purchase at the grocery store? 

What if you actually knew where your food was coming from, and you were in control of it? 

And what if the cost of doing so was less than the expense of an average used car? 

Our dream is every person a farmer, every home a farm. But when we say farmer, we aren’t talking about the picture of the last 100 years. We are talking about responsible, intelligent caring people who are committed to caring for the bodies and health of their own lives, their families, and their world. It’s not all easy. It requires us to change some things about the way we think and the demands we make. It requires making a reasonable investment of time, money, and other resources to cultivate new systems and communities that are committed to a new way of seeing the world and producing a lasting and bountiful future.

YES, I want to learn more about Aquaponic growing systems