One of the best current writers on the state of the food system in the is Michael Pollan. In a recent book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, he tells the tale of four meals--where the food came from, how it was produced, and how it got to his table. After going to incredible lengths to personally hunt and gather his last meal from the wild, he shares the food and conversation with the friends who helped him. Then he concludes the book with a most amazing paragraph:

 

"This is not the way I want to eat every day. I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food. But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world."

 

Farming is very important to us because it is our way of life and how we choose to raise our children. By promoting the importance of family farms, and taking that message to our customers and other people visiting the area, we will help more people understand the importance for preserving farms and appreciating all they offer. We would be happy to share with others our lessons learned and show how we have made things work on our family farm. Since the whole family works on the farm, and we are six members, we thought that would also appeal to people who didn't know much about farming. 

 

Throughout the years, our family has worked together in all our family and farming projects. We all helped to built our house, opened together a restaurant, started to host people in our appartments, and started to make our own vegetables and fruits. From growing our own garden to harvesting garlic and honey from the bees, we all take a part in helping and what money is made just helps to keep it all going. We feel that time spent together as a family cannot be replaced.

 

Together we take care of bee hives on our own.  Since early spring we've been opening the hives every weekend and watching what the bees do, how they collect pollen and make honey. Between April and June we open the hives, take out the frames full of honey, sweep the honeycombs and put them into the honey extractor. We just turn the handle and honey pours out of the frames.  It's the greatest experience ever and none of you should miss it. Then you can take the honey home.

 

We hope that you have a thousand wonderful conversations around your dinner table as you eat our food which you know all these things about. 

 

We believe in no magic formulas, just encourage life everywhere we can. We fertilize most heavily with the farmer's footsteps, keeping our operation diverse and simple. We try to give service and value to our customers and to stay humble enough to change. We have always felt our organic produce should be able to compete well with conventional in both price and quality. We feel we give our customers both. And more.

 

We feel it is important for consumers to know where their food is coming from and how it is produced. We host a yearly open house at our farm, which allows customers to see our operation and get to know us.

 

 

Family Katić

 

( Ilija, Dragica, Kristina, Aleksandra, Ana, Kristijan)