Autumn bounty, Kamama Farm, Madison County
We live throughout WNC. We are working to build the local Weston Price community, in mutual support between small-scale local farms, food producers and food consumers.
Specifically, we aim to spend 50% of our food dollars with these local, sustainable, and regenerative sources.
The modern, industrial food system is stripping nutrition from its products. We pay far more than the sticker price for degraded “food-like substances,” as described by food writer Michael Pollan. The US spends more than any other “advanced” country on “health care,” in return for the worst outcomes. Let’s not depend on that.
Literally, nutrient dense foods provide so much more nutrition, with potentially huge differentials in human health. This is the core message of Dr. Price’s research. Factory farms don’t do this. Small, local farms do this – providing us with the freshest foods, enriched by healthy soils, fresh air and sunshine, where plants and animals co-exist in their natural cycles of life. When crops and livestock are nourished consistent with their natural biology, they can pass to us the most optimum nutrient density to support our own biology.
Our name is inspired by the Buncombe Turnpike, an 1800s-era farm-to-market road from Tennessee through Asheville, and down the Saluda grade to Charleston, SC. We seek to grow our own trade routes.
This is not about pressure, or being healthier than thou. We all live in this world. We all have stuff we need to heal from. We share a journey. We savor the company and the caring of people who feed us well.
