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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Go Ahead! Pronounce It![/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Pronunciation is not that difficult.
→ h e f – t z ē – b a h
→ b ĕ – u – l a h
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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Heph’zibah and Beulah:
A Champion of Sustainability![/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Heph’zibah and Beulah speaks about delighting in an espousal, mysterious and romantic, between the land (Beulah) and its people (Heph’zibah), and between the nature endowed to it and to us.
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Heph’zibah And Beulah Farms is a multi-generational Family Company of Renegade Farmers celebrating that espousal with the work of our hands and we honor it by growing a familial legacy of future farmers to persist, steadfast and resolute, in celebrating that sacred trust as well.[/one_half_last]
T I K K U N O L A M
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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Repair Of The World![/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Tikkun Olam is a Hebraic phrase that translates, Repair of the world. The term carries with it the declaration that, in mankind, there exists a responsibility, a privilege, and a right toward the reparation of the world. Tikkun Olam is passed down to us by our progenitors and we honor it as a most sacred gift.[/one_half_last]
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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Living The Legacy![/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]For the Renegade Farmers, Heph’zibah and Beulah Farms is the conduit by which we live the legacy of tikkun olam. Our practices toward societal, ecological, and economical justice compose those channels that must equally be pursued to realize our whispering and persistent notion that, The work of our hands must be sacred.[/one_half_last]
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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Wild Harvests Are Food Justice! [/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”] Repairing the world through our wild harvests farming philosophy translates into food justice! We employ natural practices renegade to modern agriculture to grow Earth’s finest foods.
Foods that . . .
√ Are a pleasure and an honor to see, to feel, to smell, to prepare, and to place at the family table,
√ Naturally nourish the bodies and tantalize the taste buds of its consumers.
√ Create a healthier and more sustainable community, and a healthier and more sustainable world for all.[/one_half_last]
rekindle remember re-envision re-think renew revitalize re-define
[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”] rekindle the work of our hands . . .
JUSTICE. FLAMING SWORD. SHOFAR. TICHEL. FRUIT.
[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]The Renegade Farmers, individually, as a family, and as a nation of families to engender, continually partaking in the unified and honorable work of observing, preserving, and guarding the good land and its gifts.[/one_half_last]
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remember life . . .
BIRTH. HOLINESS. LOVE. PURPOSE. COMPASSION. EMPATHY. DEATH.
re-envision society . . .
LEADERS WHO SERVE. DISCIPLES WHO MASTER. COMMUNITIES THAT SHARE.
[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Leaders who serve and disciples who master and communities of people growing direct and positive relationships with one another and together, with the earth, nurturing holistic, sustainable living wherein each person finds delight in fresh, nutrient-rich foods that invigorate the mind, the body, and the soul. [/one_half_last]
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re-think agri-culture . . .
PERMACULTURE. COMPOST. SOIL FERTILITY. SHMITA.
[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]To decultivate Floridian soils, to cultivate their organisms, and then to let the land lay fallow toward the permanence of natural bio-diversity and ecological health. [/one_half_last]
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renew vegetation . . .
SEED FREEDOM. TREES. PERENNIALS. FOOD FOREST. HARVEST.
[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]To tend, to nurture, to harvest, and to let lay for green manure that particular specialty of diverse Floridian and adaptable flora that help produce self-sufficient ecosystems. [/one_half_last]
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revitalize creatures . . .
GRAZING. ROAMING. RESPECT. DIGNITY. HEALTH. HAPPINESS.
[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Guarding the health, the well-being, the happiness, and the dignity of native Floridian fauna and of each domestic creature under our stewardship. [/one_half_last]
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re-define economy . . .
REVOLUTIONIZE. WORK POWERFULLY. PLAY HEARTILY. REST JOYFULLY.
[/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]The right, the honor, and the responsibility of managing, regulating, and governing a balanced state of work and rest, as a means of sustaining the complement of societal, ecological, economical justice with profitability; wherein the ideas of growth and degrowth, of culture and deculture, are equally esteemed and respected; wherein patterns of fair distribution and consumption are personally and collectively explored; and, wherein systems of mutual support and care are given highest regard in community mores. [/one_half_last]
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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Cultivating wild harvests
to grow Earth’s best tasting foods![/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]As Renegade Farmers, the work of our hands is to promote nutrient-rich biodiverse soils capable of producing nutrient-rich wild harvests that in like succession continue to impart to its consumers those regenerative qualities that prove resilient to the natural and sometimes even the unnatural fluctuations of every day living.[/one_half_last]
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[one_half padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]Cultivating healthier and more sustainable communities in Florida and beyond![/one_half][one_half_last padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]The Renegade Farmers cultivate multi-generational community learning through transformative farm tours and educational engagements. We seek to develop chavruta (inquisitive fellowship), thought-leadership, and capability-building by exploring the ethical and cultural legacies that build a platform of sustainability in the individual, in the family, in the community, in the state, and in the world.[/one_half_last]
L i v i n g . T h e . L e g a c y
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[one_third padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]The Soil Organisms![/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0 0 0″]Fecundity of the soil depends on the work of its organisms. Tilling and any disturbances of the organism’s home is kept to a minimum. The Renegade Farmers comprehend that the organism’s work, as it is virtually unseen, is varied and beyond full comprehension and thereby we honor their mysteries and delight in the results.[/two_third_last]
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[one_third padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]The Vegetation![/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0 0 0″]Seeds are scattered throughout the land and allowed to grow at will amongst wild vegetation, and, yes, amongst weeds. The Renegade Farmers assist with water and footprint access.[/two_third_last]
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[one_third padding=”0 25px 0 25px”]The Creatures! [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0 0 0″]Livestock partake and contribute much as they would in nature: foraging and grazing on cultivated wild harvests throughout the land; scattering their manure as fertilizer for the soil organisms; and, interacting amongst themselves and with wild creatures. The Renegade Farmers husband their movement throughout the farmland to encourage soil fertility and to maintain vegetative growth throughout.[/two_third_last]
Thank you for your patronage!