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.

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!