Earth-Wise Farm

FARM & GARDEN FOR PRUDENT DIETS (PAY ATTENTION! YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT )

BACK- WHEN Prudent Diet Ingredients WERE ACCESSIBLE Popular 1923 Song, by Silver & Cohn, about "a fruit store on our street." Asked for bananas, the owner replies:

YES! We have no bananas
we have no bananas today,
We have string beans and onions,
cabbages and scallions,
and all kinds of fruit, and say....
We have an old-fashioned toMAHto and a Long Island poTAHto, but...
YES! WE HAVE NO BANANAS,
WE HAVE NO BANANAS TODAY.

For another half century, CLOSE-BY, there were dependable supplies of fresh fruits and berries, vegetables, range-fed cattle, and pigs/poultry/eggs produced in the great outdoors. Adequate, nutritious food supply helped win World War II, by producing a strong healthy, mentally alert fighting force, and an improved health record on the home-front. . VICTORY GARDENS eased shortages, and in Year 2000 was the inspiration for EarthWise Farm

After Ken Parker's death, the land was used by small vegetable and tobacco farmers. Soon they were replaced by large-scale soybean and cotton growers who relied heavily on pesticides and herbicides. Then, EarthWise Farm started a pesticide/herbicide-free sustainable farming operation. Wildegeest! received its North Carolina charter as a charitable, non-profit foundation with a life-saving mission, December, 2004. Its buildings and agricultural activities are mostly concentrated on 3.5 acres (south end of Mr. Ken's farm).

The farm, garden, and nursery activities are a vital part of the "Prudent Diet Program" because:- Global Warming, Fuel Shortages, Farm Policies that favor Major Producers, are looming threats to an affordable, healthful, local food supply. These and other factors underscore the need for highly diversified "VICTORY GARDENS".

Demonstrations are needed:- How to grow nutritious, natural-antioxidant-loaded varieties of vegetables, spices, herbs, in limited spaces (such as window-sills), or platform gardens for gardening without stooping; how to plan the seasons and concentrate on cold-resistant vegetables in winter months and insect resistant varieties. in summer; how to provide "organic farming conditions" by isolating each plant in pots.

Wildegeest Foundation donates its produce mostly to lower-income persons. They are the people most in need of what this farm and garden represents. And now join us on a Photo-tour of our Farm/ Garden Activities: