Comeback Creek Farm

We started our farm in 2005 in Pittsburg, Texas – a town about 100 miles east of Dallas.  Truly a small, family-run operation, we still plant every seed, pick every weed, and tend to every plant with our own hands.  We raise from seed all the plants we grow, many of which are specialty heirloom or hybrid varieties.  Suffice it to say, we are intimately involved in every part of the business: not only growing the food and tending to the land, but harvesting and washing the vegetables, packing the Farm Boxes, making deliveries, maintaining the website, corresponding with our customers, and more. We began selling our organic produce at a single table at the Dallas Farmers’ Market.  Four years later, encouraged by the support and interest from many of our customers, we started a CSA, which has evolved into what we now call our Farm Box program. Community support and a growing interest in the benefits of eating fresh, locally and sustainably grown foods have given us the opportunity to slowly expand the volume and variety of what we grow. We frequently experiment with different varieties of our established crops to determine what will thrive in our soil and withstand the finicky east Texas weather, while expanding the variety of what we plant each season.  Our vegetables are grown for their exceptional flavor, not for how long they keep or how far they ship. We look so forward to the opportunity of growing for you! John John grew up in Pittsburg, Texas, where his parents and eldest brother still reside. After graduating from Texas State University with a degree in business, he moved to Dallas and lived there several years before relocating to the East coast with his job. While living in New Jersey, he was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. He began treatments at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan, commuting from his home in Asbury Park. Treatments lasted approximately four months, and it was during this time that he committed to incorporating more fruits and vegetables into his diet, as much of it organic as possible. He turned to his small backyard garden to provide more vegetables for him, as the prices of organic produce prevented him from buying as much as he needed. What was once a hobby garden turned into a lifesaving endeavor. During this time of uncertainty, he also made the promise to himself that if he beat cancer, he would make dramatic changes in his life—most notably, giving up on the corporate life and doing work that was more fulfilling to him. In 2003, after passing his five-year mark with no recurrences of cancer, his doctor gave him a clean bill of health. John moved back to Dallas with his corporate job, where he worked and saved money for a year. In 2005, he left his job, bought a small piece of land in Pittsburg, and began farming. Aliza I was born and raised in Dallas. I joined Comeback Creek Farm full-time when John and I married in 2012. After graduating from Southern Methodist University with a degree in English and Creative Writing, I decided instead to pursue my passionate interest in food, which was inspired by my time spent studying abroad in Paris. Daily meals shared with my French host family and then eating my way around Paris revealed to me how little I knew about food, that I was a mediocre cook (at best), and that I had to do something about it. With Alice Waters and the Chez Panisse cookbooks as my guide, I made a concentrated effort to teach myself how to cook, and began to work in various chef-driven, farm-to-table restaurants in Dallas. Needing blackberries one morning for a special dessert I was making, I met John at the Dallas Farmers Market. We developed a friendship (he had the best produce at the market, after all), and then we began dating long distance. Flash-forward three years, many long, hot, and severely dry summers, and in the beginning of 2012 I packed up and moved to the farm. I approach farming from a cook’s perspective (with a hearty dose of idealism thrown in), whereas John’s perspective is mo