|
Eat More Local Food This Year REAL CLEAN FRESH LOCAL FOOD!
Eden's Garden CSA Farm - is a young, local, urban farm,
working to reach out to its community and provide a source for healthy,
nutrient rich, clean - organic - food in the underserved southeast corner of
Dallas County. Eden's Garden is a small private farm, owned and operated by
Marie Tedei with volunteers and farmers-in-training and is supported almost
exclusively by CSA
(Community Supported Agriculture).
You can help us by
joining our CSA or making a cash contribution to the
efforts of the farm here. |
|
| What a concept, eh? Real food that
is produced in a way that is sustainable to the farm it grew at, is
clean of GMO engineering, synthetic pesticides or poisons & toxic
herbicides and is grown and distributed close to home; Local food makes sense for all the right reasons;
Fresh Food - Our food is not transported from clear
across the country - or the world - to your table, so it tastes
great! Kids, (and adults) will eat more vegetables if they
taste good! And, when kids see where it comes from, they are more interested
in their food, too.
Nutritionally Dense Food - Because our food is
picked ripe and not shipped for days or weeks or (gassed and stored
for months, then gassed again to make it look pretty), you get the many
health benefits of foods packed with vitamins and minerals that will nourish
your body and mind! Plus, food grown in sustainable and organically enriched
soils, (generally associated with small, family farms using natural
methods), yield healthier food than crops grown in sterile, lifeless soil!
Food Security - Know that your food is being grown
safely, locally and by people who really care about you and what they are
doing. Farmers tend to live on or near their land, which means they care
about the stewardship of their land. Keeping green-spaces green for future
generations, and preserving some of our local history also preserves a part
of US history that everyone can enjoy in many ways. Plus, they and their
families EAT what they grow!
Face to Face - Shake the hand that feeds you! Be it
at market day or through our CSA, getting to know who is growing your food
is real peace of mind! You know your doctor, mechanic and dry cleaner - do
you know your farmer?
Local Economy Boost - Keep your food dollars
circulating in your own community. Eden's does NOT supplement our market
offerings or CSA shares with out-sourced foods. ALL of the food at Eden's is
locally grown/produced by us or other local farmers/ranchers/producers who
share our sustainable growing philosophies! So by purchasing food through
Eden's, you are supporting fellow Texans!
Convenience - Eden's Garden CSA Farm is located
less than 15 miles southeast of downtown Dallas 1 block off of I20 and 1
mile east of 635. We also have a weekly CSA delivery option for those living
north in the Lakewood area. Gather up a group of friends from church
or the neighborhood and additional drop sites may be added based on demand.
Open Door Policy - A few ask if we are "certified"
organic. Well, while we don't use synthetic chemical pesticides & herbicides
and we instead, DO use natural and sustainable farming practices, the USDA has now passed laws saying a farm can not claim in
any way to be organic or even say they are using "organic methods" unless they
pay to have a USDA inspector come out once a year, fill out a bunch of forms
and keep specific records for inspections.
But, I do have folks just like you, who
volunteer to work side by side with me learning how we do things naturally
here at Eden's, market customers who tour the farm at least once a month and
a have a great reputation for being a leader in the organic gardening
community for over 10 years. To me, it boils down to "know your farmer".
I see no sense in paying the government
not to poison my land, on the contrary, I think it would make more sense for
those who do contaminate the land to have to pay fees, but that is another
subject.....
We network with other farmers using these same growing principals and
many of us belong to TOFGA and other organizations that promote the "O word"
way of growing. Many of us go beyond the USDA's ever-changing and
relaxing organic
standards anyway. We think this transparent policy directly with our
customers is a better way. We hope you do, too.
Follow Eden's on
Facebook,
Twitter
and our Blog
pages where you can keep up with
Life on the Farm.
|

Market Day at Eden's - REAL FARMERS

Seed to plate - know where your food comes from!

Fresh heirloom and open pollinated foods
NO GMO! |