Waking Up Radical: Bottle Gourd Herbs at Historic Penn Farm

Awake to the reality that the most basic human right to healthy food is under attack. We face an encroaching, corporate-controlled food facism that has waged war on small farmers, raw milk, transparency of ingredients, in a program of full spectrum dominance that is waged from the genetic level to the air, water and soil. Growing your own food, wanting chickens in your backyard or creating backyard bird sanctuaries has become something of a revolutionary act. For years we have been hermits studying techniques and methods from around the globe for optimum, radiant health from our herbs to our teas and foods. We have presented our medicinal elixirs and potions as Bottle Gourd Herbs in the first phase of our endeavors. Phase two has us leaving the retorts and test tubes of our laboratory to draw for the shovel, the rake and the scythe, reemerging as Bottle Gourd Herbs at Historic Penn Farms with Delaware Permaculture. In addition to growing mineral-rich, organic hand-tooled produce, we hope to cultivate a community for our growing family and friends. We heard of a concept recently of “grow where you are planted” and we are native to Delaware and have roots in this state that has a stifled potential for likeminded individuals to come together over concerns of refining tar-sands crude in Delaware City or knowing what you put into your body and feed your children. If food is the new religion, then the local micro farm is the new church, and there is a truly spiritual dimension in reconnecting with the soil and sharing a meal of simple, rustic food grown with care and ethics. Work becomes the highest prayer: the planning, labor and love produces a perspiration that cleanse the body and soul. As some dark agenda tries to subjugate traditions and blur the lines to enable informed decision, seizing back the control of our food is something like enlightenment. There is alchemical gold in fields made fertile, there is redemption in remediating soil and hearing birds sing during harvests.

We send out a call to any who wish to join us in workshops, classes and social events to foster relationships and awaken to our common interests from a perfectly plated meal at our farm to a potluck documentary film night or hands-on instructions from tinctures to rocket stoves or raised beds. We live in a day and age where keeping chickens, or having backyard habitats and enforced lawns dictate a domesticated dependency on food shipped in from thousands of miles away, grown on petroleum-based fertilizers by farmers who never even touch the soil they have over-farmed until its minerals are utterly depleted. As the world waits for the bell to toll for the failed experiment of globalization we prepare as best we can by being proficient in producing high quality food and medicinals. Its time for Delaware to adjust and prepare for the reality that we may have to fend for ourselves. We hope you will come learn and grow with us. For interest in our produce (or how to grow your own), we deliver to most of New Castle County, for mineral-dense and delicious produce support us by calling 302 358 0322 or email for a current harvests and price list at info@depermaculture.com