MEET YOUR FARMERS
Hello, welcome to the farm!
I’m Esther, my husband and I have been married 24 years and have 7 beautiful children, one fabulous son-in-love and the sweetest daughter-in-love taboot. All of them are truly the heart and soul farm-team supporters.
We grow & raise the majority of our produce and meat, collect the eggs, tend to an array of fermented counter babies, make the breads, milk the cows, making-all-the-herbal-things, and have an herb, oil or salve for just about anything! Tea is taken very seriously, and butter, and bacon grease are kitchen staples. Too often than not, something decadent and scrumptiously delicious is simmering or baking in the kitchen.
Farming & Family between all of us, we make an excellent team! Tackling all the chores and extra work that comes with owning and maintaining a working farm, while tending to 3+ acres of our market garden, it takes many hardworking and willing hands to keep things running smoothly and efficiently.
Growing food and raising animals for our family and others, has been one of the hardest, yet one of the most rewarding things we’ve ever done when it comes to work, minus being a wife and mom, that has been the most rewarding. : )
We are delighted when farm-friends tickle their taste buds with fresh organically grown produce, and pasture-raised poultry & heritage pork grown and raised here on the farm. It’s a joy knowing other family tables are being graced with healthy and nutritious farm to plate goodness, just like ours.
Our family loves Jesus, people, adoption, homeschooling, plants, animals, and gathering around the family table for good food, conversation and often times a game or two!
Looking forward to gracing your table soon!
EDEN RIDGE
Eden Ridge is nestled in beautiful Prole, Iowa in the gorgeous gentle rolling hills of the Warren County countryside, located 15 minutes south of West Des Moines city limits. We’re a little, but growing regenerative family farm. We’re using animals and plants to prune the pasture, rebuild the soil, and revitalize the land.
We grow and raise our food with no chemicals, no antibiotics and no growth hormones, just nutrient rich soil and good clean water and lots and lots of weeding, and really hard work! Offering Des Moines and surrounding communities with a delightful bounty of organically grown seasonal farm-fresh produce, farm teas, raw milk & honey, woodland heritage pork, pastured poultry & eggs, along with an natural home goods.
History of the Land
In 1854 the DeVotie family purchased the original Eden Ridge land from the United States Government. The farm was once part of several hundred acres, stretching from Churchville, Iowa to where Highway 92 now resides in Prole, Iowa.
For twenty-years, a portion of the land was mined for coal. It saw the Great Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Western Co. Railway make its way through part of the original property, now known as the beautiful Great Western bike trail of Warren County, Iowa!
Over the years, the land was passed down from family members to family members, parcels sold off and inherited through wills.
Today, it’s an honor to own such a treasure. Though we have no relation to these families – we are delighted to cherishing these original precious preserved acres for God’s glory, providing the locals with the beauty and the bounty of the land.
Esther’s grandpa on the family farm in Minnesota.
