Certified Naturally Grown Foods at Foggy Bottom Farms.

The purpose of Foggy Bottom Farms is provide healthy, nutrient dense foods, free of pesticides and artificial hormones, to clients who value the time and expense required to offer quality nutrition. Our mission is to educate our clients as we provide these superior foods for the ultimate benefit of their families and friends.

Our goal is to fulfill our purpose and accomplish our mission profitably, with a commitment to excellence and integrity, in such a way that Foggy Bottom Farms becomes a sustainable model for future generations.

We are proud to participate in the Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) program.

CNG offers farms that wish to achieve a standard that meets or exceeds the USDA Certified Organic program a way to accomplish that goal in a context that looks to improve, not weaken, what organic farming is supposed to be about. You can see our inspection results at the CNG website.

Certified Organic was once a standard that dramatically set apart farms that did not wish to use the methods prevalent in large agri-business settings. With good faith efforts by the farmer, it still does.

Certified Organic was mocked by the large farm interests who were happy to continue using their petroleum based methods that poisoned the water table, degraded the food value, sickened the farmers and ultimately made the small local farm an un-sustainable idea. Likewise, the large land grant universities claimed that there was no difference between large scale farming and organic farming.

For many years, the local farms could not survive the pricing pressures of government subsidized cheap food, not because the quality of their food could not compete, but because the consumer did not understand how bad food leads to bad health.

For over thirty years, organic farmers struggled to educate consumers on the benefits of better food. Eventually the consumer came to see the relationship between bad food and bad health, as evidenced by diabetes, obesity, nervous disorders and exaggerated behavior in their children.

As soon as it became apparent that consumers were willing to pay more for better food, the large agri-business interests conspired with the USDA to weaken the organic standards to allow for large confinement operations such as Dean Foods, adulterated products such as re-constituted 2% milk and and unsupervised imported foods from countries such as China. At the same time, they raised the fees for organic certification to be anywhere $500 to several thousand dollars. The result of this kind of government behavior is that the large business interests have managed to drive the early organic pioneers out of the territory that those pioneers developed.

Organic Certification has now become a dubious label. The benefit to the abrogation of the standard is that the consumer must now go to the trouble to "know thy farmer." This may ultimately be what saves local farms despite all the labels.

The Paint Rock River Valley

Foggy Bottom Farms is nestled in the Paint Rock Valley of Jackson County, Alabama. We are located 25 miles NE of Scottsboro, AL at the intersection of state highway 65 and county road 27.

With thirty acres of arable bottom land and forty-seven acres of hills, waterfalls, streams and forests, the farm has the capacity to raise a variety grasses, legumes, grains and animals, as well as provide timber and secondary grazing from marginal areas.

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