Ways you can help our farm!

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  1. Be a regular at market and BUY LOCAL!  This not only helps us but the whole local farming community!!
  2. Share our information with your friends!  We have a Facebook page and you're of course welcome to share our website!  Eat Wright Farm on Facebook
  3. Donate stuff you don't need to be used on the farm!  Check out the list below to see if you have any 'junk' that could be useful to us!  FARMCYCLE!
  4. Volunteer!  We occasionally need a big group of hands to plant, harvest of work on a large project.  If you're interested in volunteering submit a contact form (found at the bottom of the page) and ask to be added to our volunteer list.  Farm work days are always a lot of fun!

One mans TRASH is another man's TREASURE!

         You've heard about recycling, and most likely about up-cycling, but how about farm-cycling???  We're building a farm, not a palace and what may be cluttering up your back yard, garage or attic may be just the thing we need to make our farm projects a reality!  Check out the list below and see your trash become a farm tool and treasure!

Building Supplies

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We do a lot of building on the farm and we'd like to do a lot more!  If you can use it to build something, chances are we can find a use for it! 

  • Scrap lumber any size (building animal shelters, side walls for greenhouses, feeding troughs ect.)
  • Concrete cinder blocks or left over bricks (used to construct worm bins, elevate bee hives, and planting tables, floor for the greenhouse)
  • Glass windows (for our dream of a glass greenhouse and for our honey house where we'll harvest honey (we currently set up in our kitchen!))
  • Doors, interior and exterior (for homemade storage sheds, the honey house ect.)
  • Hardware (hinges, screws, nails, bolts, handles, latches)
  • Paving stones, bricks, large rocks (for greenhouse flooring, garden pathways, bed liners..)
  • Partial bags of concrete mix (or whole bags!!) 
  • Light fixtures (eventually we'll have electricity at the farm and will need lights in our storage areas.  If you're updating your fixtures, donate your old ones!)
  • Old wooden ladders (can be fixed up for trellising vegetables!)

Odds and Ends

Creative minds come up a lot when all they have is what's on hand!  Fill our hands with useful stuff and just wait and see what we come up with!  This is just a partial list, if you see something potentially useful pass it along!


Ideas:
  • Black plastic (for smothering weeds and giving heat loving veggies a great start)
  • Used (though not trashed) garden hoses
  • Old tools (we'll fix them or remake them!)
  • 5 Gallon buckets (don't know how our farm would function without these!  we use them to carry water and feed, measure soil amendments, brew and mix liquid organic fertilizers)
  • Watering cans
  • Newspapers and shredded paper( we use paper for mulch or add to our worm bin for bedding)
  • Plastic pots
  • Wheels (for our moveable pens, for homemade wheelbarrows and carts)
  • T-Posts (for tomato cages, fencing ect.)
  • Old Mailboxes (handy out of the weather places to store hand tools close to their perspective work sites)
  • Old wooden fencing (makes great wind blocks to protect plants, great trellis for climbers, fencing for animals)
  • Old chest style deep freeze (doesn't have to be working to be useful! We use them to store grain (rodents can't get in and it's moisture proof) and our organic fertilizers which rodents also like.  Could even drill holes in the bottom and make a raised planter)

Organic Matters

Being an organically minded farm means we don't just go down to the co-op and buy a bottle of fertilizer when our plants need a lift.  Building fertility involves mountains of compost, manure and mulch.  Wonder why organic/natural food costs more?  Part of it is the labor involved in managing and spreading all that material.  However the first hurdle is obtaining the manures and materials.  Do you have a barn you'd like us to clean out?  Do you work at an office that shreds a lot of paper?  Are you currently putting all your fallen leaves at the curb for pick up?  All of these items are organic matter that can be turned into soil and health building fertilizer.  Let us know if we can take out and transform your trash for you! 
  • Bags of leaves
  • Shredded paper
  • Newspaper
  • Manure
  • Coffee grounds, egg shells

Growing Supplies
  •  Used plastic pots

Thank you ahead of time for anything you can do to help us build the farm!

Contact Eat Wright Farm

Snail mail
778 Old Lincoln Road
Fayetteville, Tn 37334   

Phone
Josh  256.797.2061
Morgan  256.509.7074

e-mail   
fresh.harvests@gmail.com

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/EatWrightFarm