Nourishing the Next Generation – Real Food for Strong Kids

As parents, we give our children countless gifts. The most important one is the nutritional foundation we build at the table. At Copia Farm we’ve watched real food change lives: children raised on nutrient‑dense, traditionally grown foods show stronger bones, healthier teeth, and well‑formed faces — the same hallmarks Weston A. Price observed in traditional cultures. That foundation carries them through childhood and into adulthood.

Price was a dentist who, long ago between the 1910s and 1930s, embarked on a worldwide study of many isolated, traditional peoples whose diets were completely traditional in nature — before white sugar, white flour, and industrialized, degraded food became so prevalent. He wanted to find out the condition of their overall oral health, because he was seeing, in his own culture, a growing amount of tooth decay, impacted teeth, and all manner of oral disease. Amazingly, he found that traditional cultures had gorgeous, well‑formed, broad faces with straight, decay‑free teeth, healthier‑looking adults, and robust, healthy babies.

Later he returned to these sites, and his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is full of before‑and‑after pictures showing profound changes on a modern diet. Within one generation of parents and children consuming white flour, sugar, and other nutrient‑poor foods, faces became narrower, dental arches became irregular with crowded teeth, and tooth decay increased.

To taste real food is captivating, ravishing, nutrient‑quenching — filling to the bones and to all the spaces in oneself that need nourishment. I’m always amazed; I don’t know why I’m still amazed after 13 years of farming, but I continuously love our regular farm foods: broth, eggs, meat, raw milk, simple farm food. We cook at home always. I love new things and different flavors, so you’d think I’d get bored, but I don’t.

It goes back to me and Dan before we were farmers, living in Napa, CA. We found a little farm shop with real food — real eggs and bacon from the farm. It was very likely, for both of us, the first time we had tasted real food from the farm, even as die‑hard health‑market shoppers. Eating eggs and bacon from the farm was life‑changing. Seriously. It was a huge reason why we went into farming as city kids.

All this to say: seeking out true, regenerative foods from the farm is well worth the effort for us moms to procure and prepare — they bring deep health for you and your children, our community, and our precious earth. Give your children the most powerful gift you can: a strong start built at your family table. We’re here to help you choose, preserve, and prepare the foods that nourish a lifetime.

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Visit: Copia Farm, 8352 Johnstown‑Alexandria Rd., Johnstown, OH 43031.

Farm store open daily, stocked with raw milk (herdshares), pastured eggs, and 100% grass‑fed & finished local meats. We have about 400 nourishing foods in our little farm store that are stocked beautifully like Christmas morning every day!