Description
Grows and sells blueberries, moringa, ginger, yaupon, and blueberry and passion flowers
Home of Dr. Booker T Whatley's farm where the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) was started.
Also, Author of Booker T. Whatley's Handbook on How to Make $100,000 Farming 25 Acres: With Special Plans for Prospering on 10 to 200 Acres
Dr. Whatley is best known for his regenerative farming system, in combination with the direct marketing concept of pick-your-own (PYO), a customer harvesting operation managed by farmers and growers. Dr. Whatley also popularized the concept of subscription buyer's club for small farmers either as a separate business from a PYO operation or in conjunction with it.[2] Today, PYO (or u-pick) farms are a worldwide phenomenon.[3] Whatley believed that the regenerative agriculture for small farmers made greater use of the internal resources that a farm produced and, therefore, when properly managed would provide a more sustainable livelihood.[4] Regenerative agriculture has a long history and can be traced to the agricultural extension work of Dr. George Washington Carver at Tuskegee University in the early part of the 20th century, as well as Carver's scientific contributions regarding the nitrogen cycle and the biological regeneration of soils in the southern United States where he introduced crop rotation methods in combination with the planting of nitrogen-fixing legumes, such as peanuts, peas, and soybeans.[5]