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What Customers Are Saying

written by

Ben Simmons

posted on

September 8, 2018

Farm Update - Mike Russell with Farm Week called me Monday to discuss the chicken issue. I also suggested he call Senator Angela Hill. Mike said he would schedule a visit to my farm soon and do a video story. His conversation with Senator Hill can be heard at 6pm Saturday on PBS.

Teri who picks up in Picayune shared the TEDx video above. Teri has been a long time customer of beef, pork, chicken, and now eggs. She is very diligent in shopping and thanked NGF for providing quality food products.

Jim who picks up in Gulfport has bought a half beef & half pork each year for almost as long as we have been selling them. He also buys a lot of chickens and eggs. Jim has recruited at least 3 additional customers who buy faithfully most months.

Recently, Jim emailed me to say "A few years ago, I changed my diet from mostly healthy carbohydrates to a high fat diet that includes pork, chicken, and beef from Nature's Gourmet Farm. I have found that my cholesterol profile has improved considerably. These results are contradictory to what the American Heart Association predicts will happen from eating a diet high in saturated fats."

I can think of several more men who have commented to me over the years how eating our pasture based meats have helped to improve their cholesterol. Eating naturally raised products does make a difference!

Peggy, who received their first chickens in August writes: The chickens where excellent. I canned 14 quarts and the gizzards where not that hard to clean. We had some for supper that night. We may be interested in more later. We also pray for a favorable out come on the small farm bill.

Two customers who both took delivery of a Quarter Beef for August have posted a Google Review. We work very hard and are very proud of our 5-Star Ratings! Thank you for honoring our efforts. You can read all 32-Google Reviews by clicking here.

Even though we pour our complete energy into our farm, we never forget that our efforts would be utterly pointless if you did not value it. So, thank you. You are without a doubt the most important player in this game. Never underestimate the tremendous power of your food choices. You can make a difference!

Working together - only working together, can we improve our environment, health, quality of life, the quality of our animals' lives, and the social fabric of our communities - one bite at a time.

Customer Feedback-
"May God bless your efforts in pursuing fair treatment from the political powers regarding your much-appreciated farming business!" ~M Cameron

Quote Worth Re-Quoting – ““When a livestock farmer is willing to “practice complexity”—to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to—he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn’t designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.” ~M. Pollen

As always, thank you for supporting our regenerative, local farm.
Ben & Beth

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