Our passion is to produce nutrient dense food that heals people

Our second driving mission at Wellspring Farm is to produce seriously great food, full of nutrients that result in human health. Essentially this pursuit of amazing food begins with caring for the soil because:

Healthy soil leads to healthy plants,
Healthy plants lead to healthy animals,
Healthy animals lead to healthy food and
Healthy food leads to healthy people!

What does health in people look like? Well, it is not simply the absence of illness. The opposite of being healthy is not as simple as avoiding disease; it is enjoying our vibrant, energetic and holistically functioning body, mind and emotions firing on all cylinders. And the food we eat either builds toward that holistic health, or leads us away from it. Every mouthful is a health choice!

Hence we aim not to produce the cheapest bulk food that we can, but rather aim to produce the best, most nutrient dense food that we can. So is our food more expensive? Tricky question really. If we look at just the Rands and cents, then yes - you can probably buy cheaper food from many supermarkets. But if you look at the more holistic landscape then a totally different reality emerges. Eating  nutrient dense food that heals our bodies means:

• •  we are paying for nutrients, not calories, and so we eat less because we are not filling our stomachs with wasted calories.  To give this a tangible example, pasture-raised eggs have been tested  nutritionally, and are  proven to be more than twice as nutritious as free range eggs  in stores.  One of our eggs is worth, nutritionally, at least two from the shop! 

  • we spend less on medical expenses, including largely unnecessary vitamin and mineral supplements,  because our bodies are naturally healthier thanks to the good food.

  • the ecological and societal cost of regenerative farming is virtually nil, compared to the devastating costs caused by more modern industrial food systems.

These are hidden costs in our cheap food system that we do not normally recognise, and when we properly consider the full cost of food production, then regenerative agriculture comes out streaks ahead. 

However, the focus on high quality (over high production volume) does mean that we are not able to supply to all the demand for wholesome nutritious food. Our dairy products are almost exclusively sold locally and to visiting guests, where as our meat products are available for delivery into Cape Town as it becomes available. If you are interested in eating our amazing food, then contact us to ask for our current product list and pricing.