I  first met Lucia Heubner at a meeting at The Yardley Inn hosted by  the restaurant’s chef, Eben Copple. Six of us talked about what was new with the food movement. We were there to talk about Mobile Slaughter Units.  I filled my notebook with Lucia’s alphabet soup of  farm organizations, books, movements, small farms, farmers,websites and book clubs. I  visited her farm in  Hopewell and met her in her element. In thirty minutes she stoked her woodstove, watered her animals, tended to a sick animal, scolded her Australian sheppard, calmed a shaking calf, dumped four frozen water buckets, talked about and showed me her farm. She apologized for the “sloppy” barn and said that when her daughter got home from college she would likely kill her for letting in get “that” way.

After the tour she filled another one of my notebook pages with her geyser of knowledge and experience. She mentioned  NOFA, and its mission to build healthy farms, healthy food, healthy lands and a vibrant community. She also spoke the importance of defining  “sustainability” in which we’re all engaged. And, she invited me to join her at  a book club in Princeton …take a breath…She has  me reading Real Food by Nina Planck, The Revolution Will not be Microwaved, The End of Overeating; looking up Meatingplace.com, Newfarm.org.  She asked me to meet with David Becker of Burning Heart Farm, Karen Anderson of  NOFA NJ, to find out more about  the Westin Price Foundation, and……well…you get the idea!

Lucia and her husband sell their grass fed beef at their  farm in Hopewell NJ.
Beechtree Farm
Lucia and CharlesHuebner
web.mac.com/beechtreefarm
609-466 0277