Rose Creek Farms

Shop All Products Seasonal Farm Bag Salad Greens Micro Greens Herbs Goods Bunching Greens Root Crops Flowers Jellies and Jams Jewelry Resources On-Farm Store Farm Bag Pickup/Delivery points Contact FAQField Notes Blog Recipes We are a human-powered, no-till, farm located in Selmer, TN that grows and harvests from real soil 52 weeks a year. Using techniques developed over 12 years of farming, we strive to grow and harvest the most nutrient-dense produce possible. Not Your Average Farm We never tire of continually growing, learning, trialing different methods, and creating custom systems of non-conventional sustainable farming that continue to amaze us season after season with ever-increasing yields, density, color, and flavor. Let's leave the earth a better place than the way we found it. We believe our body is our temple, and that what we put in it matters! It starts with food, which starts with the soil that the food is grown in. Our ultimate goal is to feed our family the most delicious and nourishing produce we possibly can and whatever is left over to share with as many families as possible. It all matters, the people who tend the earth, the soil itself, the seed, the plants, and finally, the families for whom's table we provide. Back in the spring of 2009, my wife asked me to plant a small garden so she could can some salsa for the winter. That first year’s garden was horrendous! The weeds were taller than I was! It was bad! But, there was something in the connection we had with the earth that inspired us, and thus birthed a dream of one day tending the earth full time. In the summer of 2009 I was laid off from a really good job, leaving us debt-free but no savings to start with. So we had to start with zero, but we were rich with vision and determination for our family to make a go of farming, allowing us to get a sense of what could grow in our punishing humid summers and it also gave us time to figure out where our markets would be. We were farming insane hours, rarely it seemed was I around for meals or bedtimes for our children. At this time we were farming with a tractor on 2 acres (terribly!), got into chickens, laying hens, pigs, and even a few cows. All in trying to practically find a way to make a living here in our area which was proving to be very difficult! Regulations for raising and selling livestock here caused us numerous hardships, and without consistent clients to buy our meat, it became more of a struggle to maintain a family of 6, keep track of our animals, and keep the Tennessee weed bank under control, which did not even come close to happening! To top it all, early in the spring of 2015 right at transplant season, our 6-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a very aggressive life-threatening stage 4 cancer. And we needed a change How We Got Through It By this time in 2015, we had already established some really good methods for growing lettuce, especially in the summer. And after a radical diet and lifestyle change that followed our daughter's health crisis, we started to consume large amounts of vegetables, a lot less meat, and in the fall of 2015 we made a leap of faith to sell our meat business, stop using a tractor, and farm using only one acre. Our farming friends thought we were insane, but we were pretty certain that focusing on just produce would allow us to master the lettuce crop in 2016. We had lettuce for sale every week that season! We were so thrilled to discover that we tripled our income on half the amount of land that year! Excited and inspired, we knew we were heading in the right direction. By focusing on creating better-growing systems in our produce operation, changing our farm practices, we now have year-round production, anearweed-free farm (which makes me thrilled nearly every day), and being really aggressive and creative about our sales outlets for our area, we have been able to live a sustainable and enjoyable life, rarely working in the fields more than 8 hours, which was