At Blackburn Fork Farm, we are committed to cultivating, nurturing and raising food as medicine. We believe nourishment cascades up the food chain in the same way love flows out and across boundaries. As a family, we have not always lived in northern Alabama. For ten years we raised our children in northern Mozambique living and working with the Yao people who are predominantly subsistence farmers. From our neighbors there, we learned how the gift of food does not simply nourish the body but also the spirit.

From that place, a radicle germinated in us. The first emerging root from a seed is called a radicle. But that moment is a radical hope in life. Seeds have radicles. But so do all creatures of creation. We know what it means to nurture the first emergence of hope and life. All life starts fragile. And we are committed to practices of husbandry that nurture that life not as a commodity but as a gift. For that reason, we treat every living thing on our farm as a gift. From the microbes in the soil, to the bawling lambs, to the snuffling piglets, do the quiet stature of germinating chestnuts, we celebrate and care for that life to have a home and a place on the farm. We believe good husbandry brings healthy food and healthy land. And that flows up into healthy people and communities. We are committed to both ends of that nourishment path. Committing to the radicle under the soil and to our wider human community, we believe an emerging ecosystem of peace and health takes root.