What's your story?

Way of The Shepherd

" I want to suggest a new story, one that calls us to be in relationship with the world; the plants, the animals, the people. A story that calls us to recognize how our survival is interwoven with the survival of our community. A story in which I know the person who plants and tends the seeds that sustain me and am known by the people who eat the sheep and chickens who die under my knife."

- Charles Williams, Sonoma, California

Ahava Farm ~ Beyond Organic: Local, Sustainable, Pure

Clorado Springs, Colorado

It all began with love. In fact, 'Ahava' means love in hebrew - not to be mistaken for the name Hava (as I did) which is hebrew for Eve and etymologically means the source of all life and the name of Yosef's wife. Yosef and Hava began gardening in the high desert plains east of Colorado Springs as a way to nourish their children with pure, real food, blossoming a year (and eighteen or so books later) into a full fledged CSA farm. Maybe I had been spending too much time at the Garden of The Gods but visiting Yosef and Hava on Ahava Farm was like visiting Adam and Eve before The Fall. Living, as I imagine they were, in harmony with the natural world. Beyond Organic - local, sustainable and truly pure.