Isabella’s Italian Trattoria, a great Italian restaurant in Lynchburg, Virginia has chosen Our Father’s Farm as one of their sources for locally-grown organic food.
Inside the big white farmhouse, 6-year-old Timmy Fuhrmann squirms on the carpet as his mom teaches him phonics.
“Ned, Ted, red…” he recites from chalkboard, following his mother’s lead.
When it’s his sister’s turn, Timmy glances out the window. “The tractor,” a red sitting lawn mower, sits idle in the driveway. Up the hill, his older brothers and sisters are clearing dead tree branches from the cow pasture, and piling them up for a bonfire.
As the lesson winds down, Timmy can barely contain himself.
“Can I go and drive the tractor now?” he blurts out.
It’s not something you hear about everyday- people leaving the big city for the farming life. But one couple and their seven kids did it. They moved to Gretna and started “Our Father’s Farm”. They wanted to be part of the grow local movement.
The Fuhrmann family is just one of many across the US leaving a hectic life to take part in something they say is more fulfilling.
