Reducing our carbon footprint is an important part of sustainable living and buying where you live is an vital step towards a greener lifestyle. Supporting your local growers is a wonderful way to reduce your carbon footprint. Thus sweetgum grove farm is proud to be apart of the growing wave of supporters of the goodness grown in NC movement. It is easy to do your part to go green one product at a time, by buying local.

The periodic table of the vegetables

The weather here in the Piedmont has been a mix of all kinds of winter precipitation. Little has been done on the farm. Most of the activities are localized to the internet and researching for the upcoming growing season. The image is of the periodic table of vegetables.

Ecopreneur

The definition of Ecopreneur (britannica.com) is one who provides environmentally friendly services, goods, and technology such as recycling, green construction, or organic food. Thus, sweetgum grove farm's, sustainable urban farming mission would fall within this definition. There is a growing movement that has gained speed in recent years for a more simple and back to basics way of life where independence is fostered through self reliance. A buzz word in the food world is organic yet, the course to this point has truly been organic in nature with every new discovery on the road to sustainable urban farming we are progressing to the next logical step in self reliance. A side note worth mentioning is, the fact that the basic principles of sustainable urban farming were common place 100 years ago yet, seem in part to have been lost in the evolution to a technologically advanced society. Ironic! n'est-ce pas?

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