One of our most favorite parts of the local food biz is visiting our local farmers and getting to tour their pride & joy – their farms. Just a couple weeks ago we headed up to Celeste, TX, to meet Paul Magedson and check out Good Earth Organic Farm, a beautiful piece of land just 60 miles from downtown Dallas.
The Magedson family has been in the farming game since 1984, and have a deep commitment to using sustainable agriculture techniques. In fact, Paul’s farm was one of the very first farms in Texas to be certified Organic by the state – not a small task! They’ve got over 200 acres upon which happy chickens, turkeys and lambs roam freely.
Paul grows some of the best veggies around – this week we’ll have some of his beautiful purple turnips and green garlic in the Local Box. We really can’t wait for Spring though – he’s busy re-planting from the drought, and we can look forward to figs, cherry tomatoes, red okra and more sprouting up from that rich organic soil.
Good Earth Organic Farm also has lot of fun stuff going on aside from veggies, and we highly suggest you make a visit out there. Not only do they host comprehensive farm tours, but classes as well on everything to making your own sustainable chocolates tobuilding your own solar food dehydrator. If you do go out there, you’ll notice he has a creative solution for re-using old bath tubs – he’s got a ton of them and uses them for washing produce, planting flowers, and even re purposed one as a sofa!
We thank Paul and the whole crew at Good Earth Organic Farm for having us out, and for the hard work it takes to provide us with nutritious organic veggies. A true leader in the fight to make our food system sustainable, we are so happy to include him in our list of farmer heroes.
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