The Vision

The Sharps are farm hungry. We have a clear vision. It feels like doors are opening. We've sought wise council. We've test marketed the idea. We've fined tuned our delivery... now we need the farm.

Here's our vision:

Phase 1: Market basket program.
Plant 1 acre heritage veggie garden. Get some laying hens
Each day/week (depends on the season and my daily stressors) we will put together 5 to 10 market baskets. They will have eggs, jam, pickles, fresh veggies (grown from heritage non genetically modified seeds), and pie or bread or granola... price will depend on what's inside. We want to keep it simple. We'll probably advertise baskets/content/options on facebook each morning and make the appropriate deliveries.

Phase 2:
Add in a few meat hens and maybe 1 or 2 cows, and a large pumpkin patch. These won't be in the market basket, in case you were wondering... that would be weird... these will just allow us to feed our family and any interested friends who want a meat order. Pumpkin patch will allow us to market to the local schools looking for an easy class trip and a small farm experience.

At the same time we'll add in a community garden that our children will coordinate and all the food from this garden will go local shelters and food banks.

Phase 3:
Make the farm garden larger. Add in some maple syrup and maybe work with a local bee keeper. Possibilities are endless

Now we just need the farm... and a name... I like "The Farmer's Wife"... Kids like "Sharpie Acres"

Anyways... just wanted to get the idea down. If the we don't get the farm it will be fine, we'll figure out something else... Either way, farm or not, we'll have more kids here and we'll continue to be urban farmers. We know our purpose.

To live simply. To love wholly. To serve humbly.