Ahavah Farm - Local. Sustainable. Pure

Today was our first "Home-School Day."  What fun it was too, and it seemed that everyone really enjoyed themselves. I know we did!  Everyone got to feed the alpacas, play with the chickens and learn about the farm and about different vegetables.  We ate cherry tomatoes, picked a carrot and a beet and got to collect some duck and chicken eggs.  Then we cooked it all up and ate all of our harvest. We can't wait for our next Home-School Day! See some of the pictures below:

Check out the documentary featuring our farm:  A Labor of Love by Albergo Twin Productions:

"Your produce is so expensive!" Is it?  Yes.  We admit, our produce IS a little more expensive than most.  However, there are a couple of reasons for this beyond our sustainable methods, our all-heirloom produce and beyond organic nutritional value, which I will discuss here. First, it is important to take note of the market that we are dealing with here.  For instance, are we talking about expensive for Colorado?  For Denver?  For a CSA?  For Colorado Springs?  Compared to the Grocery Store?  For the first three, Colorado, Denver or CSA the reality is that our produce is not priced high at all - especially for Denver and especially for a CSA (who receive up to a 35% discount).  We could, therefore, sell our produce exclusively to Denver and by doing so raise our prices an additional 25% or more.  Believe me, the price for Farmer's Market produce in Denver, even for NON-ORGANIC produce, is exorbitant.  We could also get out...

Colorado Springs is a Food Desert, where only 1-2% of the food is local. One of the reasons we are in existence is so we can do the right thing and bring Beyond Organic, Pure food to the area and to those who don't have access or can't afford it. Seeds Community Cafe is an organization that helps us obtain this goal through our food donations. Seeds offers a "Pay What You Can" option using food mostly donated from local area farms like ours. We love Seeds and we love Lyn (Founder). We ask you to help Seeds Community Cafe have a greater reach in feeding people fresh, local, pure food. By doing so, you will also be helping Ahavah Farm have a greater mission by extending our food to those who need it the most.

Nutritional Value of Pasture-Raised, organic fed eggs are not the only reason to by them. Knowing your farmer. Knowing how your animals are treated. Knowing what your animals are fed is just as important as the added nutritional value of the product. Watch the disturbing video below and then support your local farmer who treats their animals with love and care. Beware of very disturbing images. Oh, and in case you were interested...the nutritional value is MUCH better!

We are officially on Facebook.  Can't say I am happy about that. However, that's the way of the world for now, and if we want to reach the masses, it's the way to go.  Please check us out and like us!

It's been awhile since we have posted on this blog... It's just been so insanely busy around here to say the least, the last thing I have time to do is post on the blog.  Let's see, we are prepping and planting for all the fall and winter produce, we finished our 80 foot greenhouse, we are expanding our 1/2 acre garden, we are expanding our egg business and we just got 10 Alpacas!  All this, in the absolute height of the season...yeah, I'd say we are busy.  This is how our days go: Our typical day lately goes from somewhere around 4 or 5am to about 8 or 9pm.  We start the day by opening the greenhouse and rotating the irrigation for both the greenhouse and the garden (all 4 zones).  We then go let the chickens out, fill their feed and water them.  Then we do the same with half of the ducks (long story) and we do the same with the other chicken coop.  We rinse out the duck pools and fill them while we are at it.  Then we go back into the greenh...