In early 2020, when the pandemic hit, we found ourselves asking... will the grocery store supply chains break down?

And the only answer we felt safe with: build our OWN food supply.

LITTLE did we know how incredible creating our own food source would be!

Josh taught himself, using YouTube videos and courses, how to build, grow and maintain his own organic, non GMO indoor and outdoor greenhouses. He grows over 30 different heads of produce indoors; so successful, some heads reach 5 ft in circumference!, and is building another 30'x40' outdoor greenhouse space. He also installed a full solar off-grid system for our farm, with complete battery backup. Julia studied chicken-raising and raised a flock of 2 day old chickens with our 7 year old daughter. Now, our chicken-raising is so successful, the chickens we raised in 2020 are having chickens of their own on our farm with no help and we average 15 delicious eggs a day!

We have achieved our goal of a sustainable farm. 40-50% of our food supply is now grown on our farm, and our long-term goal is permaculture and fruits/berries/vegetables that give us a variety of food supplies.

We've been entrepreneurs for 10 years. Julia McCoy is a writer, author, and business builder, and Josh McCoy runs our tech and websites. As we studied the times objectively in 2020, we decided to escape the city (Austin/Round Rock), acquire land, and start a farm! We put an offer on a new house with acreage in Texas Hill Country, moved, and began to slowly build our own farm – in the middle of the pandemic, mid-March 2020.

Our sustainable food endeavor has been so surprisingly successful (we went into this knowing NOTHING!), we want to share the excess AND inspire America to get back into sustainable farming. We think BIG!

Here's what we're doing.

OUR #1 GOAL: First, we want to write childrens' books (Julia and our daughter Jaina!) that involve and delight children in the art and beauty of American farming. We have a chicken series, The Chicken Chronicles, on standby that we need about $5,000 in funding to start the designer and formatter with. There will be almost a dozen books in this series, and our goal is published on Amazon and in libraries/bookstores everywhere!

OUR #2 GOAL (local community): Additionally, our goal is to use sales from this shop to re-invest in our greenhouses to be able to deliver fresh greens and food to the homeless shelters and kitchens locally here in Texas. On ONE day in Austin, Texas, it's estimated that 3,160 people go without a home and potentially fresh food as well. This includes 2,238 people living unsheltered in tents, cars, abandoned buildings, and other places not meant for human habitation. We want to provide fresh food to these people in need and do weekly drop-offs at food kitchens.

💰 FUNDING – THE HOW: We decided to take our entrepreneurial skills and build a t-shirt store, designed with beautiful, hand-drawn designs by us and our design team, and printed here in the US (our provider, Printful, allows us to choose a marketplace partner that does just that – prints these beautiful, comfortable shirts here in the US!) for a goal of raising funds to share our sustainable food venture with the world.

Will you help us? Just one sale helps our mission!

We believe that Americans should be taking back the land that is theirs, and raising, growing, and maintaining their own crops. We believe in restoring the long-lost art of clean, local eating, which brings a new level of health and vitality.

Let's make America full of sustainable, home-grown, family-made food again. 💚