PARRISH, Fla. — Just steps off the Gamble Creek Farms market in Parrish lie acres of organic food, real and certified.
“We grow several types of lettuces,” said farm manager Natasha Ahuja. “Gold beets, red beets, candy cane beets. We grow kale. The curly kale, black magic kale.”
And produce like that is helped along with animals on the farm. Red wigglers, better known as worms, make worm babies and manure — called castings.
“And it’s really, really rich in complex microbes and nutrition for plant health,” said the farm’s General Manager Zachary Rasmussen. “We actually call them the hardest workers on the farm because they work 24 hours a day, they don’t complain, and they only eat your waste.”
The goal here is organic food helped along by nature’s super-pooping, baby-making red wigglers.
Gamble Creek Farms offers group tours and free family seasonal events.
The next Health Harvest Festival is happening on March 28, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Admission is free, and there will be live music, local vendors, a bounce house and wine and beer tasting.
Virginia Johnson
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