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A few weeks ago I set up a stand at the farmer’s market for Home Place for the first time in about three years. I spent the whole day staring at tables full of produce and talking with old and new customers who were as excited as I was to be there. It was truly fun to be hanging out for the morning drinking coffee and chatting with other local farms in between sales at our tent. Just before the market shut down I swooped by all of the stands and started buying things for lunch that day. My eating...

___________ We couldn't be with each other this year for our beloved boucherie, so we wanted to bring the party to you! We've compiled a list with all of the people who help bring together a great weekend on the farm each year. They're incredible small businesses, who make a big regional impact, and without them our event wouldn't be half as good. So please enjoy the buyers clubs, the websites, and a little bit of free shipping while you help support these fantastic small businesses. ___________

  This week it is only appropriate that we write about our beloved Boucherie, the peerless party we’ve crafted over 6 years in the hills of north Mississippi.  From an inside perspective, the Boucherie is a culminating annual event for HPP.  Though it’s in August, it feels like a year end ordeal. Couched in the middle of our slowest (and hottest) season, the party is always a reference point for what we’ve accomplished in the last year and where we hope to be by the next one.  The Boucherie is special not only because it's an awesome idea: blending chefs,...

  August 7th Today, I want to write about the tension between local, small-scale agriculture and consumer expectations.  As small-scale, animal focused farmers, HPP (and farms like ours) design production systems around the needs of the animal, instead of forcing the animal to adhere to the needs of an efficiency driven production system.  The industrialization and centralization of our modern food system is a marvel of science and ingenuity, and creates food at a scale and cost that makes it accessible for everyone.  Affordable, abundant protein is not an inherent evil, and the massive meat industry arguably “feeds the world”...