09/15/2023
Long post- but please read.
Dear supporters of Wholesun Farms, (the farm on Old Pioneer Road)
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Perhaps you had read of our event on October 14th. This has been planned as a farm festival and art show with free gardening classes and children’s activities, free cut flowers, artists displaying their work and live music. Unfortunately a couple of disapproving neighbors contacted Mohave County and complained. We were informed that we were not allowed to do this, as it would take a special use permit. In fact it seems that each of our Saturday morning and Wednesday evenings open markets also require this similar approval process. So unfortunately, not only are we having to cancel this event, as there is not enough time to get the permit, but we are also going to have to cancel being able to sell from our farm.
Over the next few months we will be working to apply for the needed paperwork to provide future events. However, with opposition from neighbors, we may still not be able to achieve this.
As some of you may know, we recently sponsored a fundraiser for the elementary school PTO in support of the schools new garden. We donated crops that were then sold at the school on their art night. We are excited to be a good community partner. Unfortunately, this new complication now even prevents the elementary school coming to the garden for a Halloween pumpkin activity we had been hoping to do.
Our goals for next year and the year after include a small corn maze for children, an heirloom tomato demonstration garden featuring hundreds of old fashioned tomatoes, a children’s pumpkin patch, u pick crops, farm made salsa and soups to enjoy onsite, cut flowers and bouquet production (including our now famous zinnias) and many other ways that you and your family can connect with nature, have an educational resource, be able to buy the freshest and healthiest produce around and have an all around community center for events, all from our farm. We even have a place we believe can make for a great amphitheater for the community. There is also a small forest section of our property we know you will love to use as a place to relax.
Our focus is about healing. We are growing to heal the land, mind, body and soul. We know that by using good farming practices, we can help accomplish these things while providing you a community centered facility you will be proud of.
Yes, it is unfortunate that just one or two neighbors can cause us to not be able to provide you and your family the hands on opportunities you have begun to enjoy this summer. But we are patient and know we will still become that community focused place a working farm can be for this area.
But we still have a way you can purchase our fresh produce. We will now start providing a weekly deliver service beginning in the Beaverdam/Littlefield area and expanding out. This will be about $20 a week for a box of assorted produce, plants and flowers delivered to your door. We are still working on the details and will post them shortly.
However, we desperately need your help to once again allow for you to come to our farm for all the things mentioned above, as well as the confidence in seeing first hand where and how your food is grown. We need to know you want us here. When we make application to comply with Mohave County, we expect certain neighbors to oppose us. Their reasons are their own and they are entitled to them. We just wish they shared the vision of what we are trying to bring to the area. However, we believe we have already demonstrated we want to be a strong supporting member of this community. We will be circulating a petition encouraging Mohave County to allow this and hope you will sign it. We would also greatly appreciate any testimonials, either written or video, showing your support of our farm and being able to visit here.
It is also important that when the time comes, the Mohave Board of Supervisors know of your support. We hope you will email them and ask them to support Wholesun Farm’s application.
Please wholeheartedly support Wholesun Farms.
Thank you for any help you can give.
