Farmers, farmers everywhere ❤️🔥
Y'all, there is an explosion of real food farmers in KY!
This morning, a long time dear member of the club told me that she found a raw milk farmer 3 miles from her (her drop is 30 minutes away and she only got milk from us) so she would no longer be buying through the club.
While this saddens me because we’ve developed a lovely friendship, I’m excited for her. This is my dream for everyone, that you find local farmers who can provide for you. I’ve always tried to keep that mission front and center even though I dearly love delivering real food to you all. I have made so many friends!
Follow Carbon Cowboys on social media, they have wonderful content! All about local regenerative farming practices.
Why?
I’m not a farmer and no yen to be. I don’t like to cook and recipes look loooong and hard. I’ve asked myself many times why I love this so much. I would still be doing this for free except the deliveries got so big along with expenses, that in 2019, Hal finally said, “You have to figure out how to make this venture at least pay for itself.” I called John Moody who started the Louisville Wholelife Buying Club, asked a TON of questions, called my long time friend Max Kane who started FarmMatch and KFIC was born.
So why? The closest I come to that answer is because the absolute best four years of my life (grades 3 through 6) were spent on a dairy farm in Greens Fork, IN. My stepfather owned it and I fell in love with the tenant farmers, Virginia and Charlie Brown. I followed them every minute I wasn’t in school! Got kicked across the milking shed a couple of times, and was too short to muck thru the deep manure in the milking pen where the cows waited in line twice a day. Got stuck trying to climb over the electric wire ONCE, lol. Rode Virginia’s great big horse, Red. Wish I had pictures, but no cell phones in the early 60’s!
Plus all that lovely raw milk! We drank LOTS! I have always loved farmers and good food. So there it is :)
PS. $
I don’t take a paycheck from the club although it pays for all club expenses: gas, car insurance, car maintenance, a portion of the car payments when we get a van (I will also use it personally), a portion of utilities, miscellaneous equipment (freezers mostly), office supplies. Beth is paid when she delivers (currently one day a week of the three delivery days). I get real food at cost, plus we are supporting several local real food farmers. What’s not to love???
News Bites
AZURE STANDARD We now have a wholesale account with Azure Standard! It’s not a huge discount but it’s something, and you get Azure’s products through the club for only slightly more than you’d pay by going to Azure directly.
If you don’t know about Azure, check it out! They offer only non-GMO and organic foods in single serving or in bulk. Tons of options!
There is an Azure drop everything month in Lexington. John has one at his club in Louisville and I think there are a couple more in KY.
If you want to join our drop, go here and search “lexington ky” — you’ll find the Evermore Farm drop. It’s a lovely gathering of like-minded friends every month at the Lexington Ice Center.
When you find something you’d like the club to carry, let me know and I’ll put it in the catalogue. Just hit reply to this email or comment or text me 859-550-3862.
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xo Sally