Welcome to Long Hungry Creek FarmÂ
Home to the Barefoot Farmer – Jeff Poppen
Long Hungry Creek Farm was established in 1974 and is one of the largest biodynamic farms in Tennessee. The goal of the Long Hungry Creek Farm is to grow the highest quality farm products possible, while enjoyably developing an economically viable, aesthetically pleasing and humus-rich farm which remains relatively independent regarding its own feed and fertilizer needs. We’d like to continue researching ways to do this and to consult, demonstrate and promote the idea that such a farm is a valuable and beneficial addition to the landscape and atmosphere of the 21st century.
The earth needs healing
and biodynamic farmers are helping to do it.
The most important thing is that food grown on live soils gives health to humanity. In nature, everything is interrelated. Biodynamic farms keep hedgerows, wetlands, forests and meadows not only for their beauty and wildlife, but because they harbor forces beneficial to the cropland. We try to imagine the forces hidden behind what our senses perceive. Biodynamics has fostered the development of a new marketing strategy, too. People used to be able to make a living selling garden produce, and now, through Community Sponsored Agriculture, they can again.
200 customers cover the farmer’s annual budget, and they in turn receive weekly baskets of produce during the growing season. The farmer is thus salaried and guaranteed an outlet for the farm’s produce, which gets to the consumer without any extra costs for the middleman.
Read more about our CSA here…Â Â 
“With an end view of the best possible sustenance for human nature, how our foods are grown may be more important than the kinds of foods we eat.” ~ Jeff Poppen
