15Thousand Farmers

15Thousand Farmers is a community organization that seeks to empower 15,000 new organic, neighborhood, backyard/front yard farmers in Louisville and Southern Indiana.  By making easy-to-follow growing instructions available, this grassroots group hopes to provide the fertile ground out of which our city can inspire folks like you and me to grow their own food, neighborhoods, and communities. 

What will 15,000 organic farmers mean to us here in Louisville?

• We’ll learn we can plant a seed and feed ourselves!
• As we grow our Easy Farms, we can grow the community in our neighborhoods. We can meet our neighbors around a common interest – sharing growing secrets, trading special vegetables or herbs and seeds!
• We take back our power of choice!  As we grow our own food, we begin to realize we have a choice to take charge of things we hold dear – abundant, inexpensive, delicious, nutritious organic food, sharing it with friends, saving money we usually spend at the grocery, reconnect with nature just outside our back door, making new friends in our neighborhood with a common interest, helping transform this community and the world.
• As we grow our food locally, we reduce our dependence on foreign oil as we buy less stuff that has been shipped in by truck, train or plane from distant states or countries.
• Organic farming sequesters carbon faster than any other current technology.  So as we plant and grow our food, we powerfully affect climate change.

Heine Brothers' Coffee is proud to be a founding sponsor of 15Thousand Farmers.