Why Choose Getting Back to Nature™?

Our Practices

Living Soil Progression in 2014 — The brothers, Irucka Ajani and Obiora Embry, are using regenerative, biodynamic/agrohomeopathy, permaculture, companion planting, polyculture, and positive vibrations/love to create a healthy and balanced polyculture ecosystem on two acres of the eighth‐generation family farm, Martin Acres, in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. We harvest from our two acres healing plants, food, natural dyes, and create artisanal value‐added products from its flora.

Mother Nature as a Guide

Bumblebee on Slender Mountain Mint — Mother Nature is a place where we go to **heal**, to breathe fresh air, seek solace and freedom, forage, and reconnect with what is real and natural. It is also a place where we have learned about growing food...nature does not grow food in rows nor in a monoculture, so we don’t either.

Rooted in Love

Group of trees that were dying in November 2013 but were coming back to life in November 2015 — We’re adding energy, positive energy/love to our two acres and Martin Acres, and in doing so, we have seen dying trees come back to life, the return of quail, and much more. Love is also what we we put into our products and it’s our most important ingredient!

What We Offer

2022 Calendars

Order your 2022 wall hanging calendar today! Our 2022 calendars include quotes, beautiful Nature photographs on our two acres, and celestial events for 2022.

Speakers/Instructors

At the 2019 Tennessee Local Food Summit we did a presentation on healing the land, creating a vibrant food ecosystem, and re‐imagining southern food.

In 2020 we held Fire Cider ‐ "Let Thy Food Help You Heal" and Sauerkraut with Spring Flora ‐ "Let Thy Food Be Help You Heal") workshops.

Listen to our radio interviews from June 2021:

Dig This! 22 June 2021 ‐ Obiora Radio Interview with Monica Clark

Dig This! 29 June 2021 ‐ Irucka Radio Interview with Monica Clark

We can travel to speak to your agriculture, horticulture, environmental, school, youth, etc. organization/group. Please contact us if you are interested.

Jams and Jellies

Our artisanal jams and jellies are made primarily with foraged ingredients, including some forgotten southern plants that were consumed by the indigenous communities that once thrived in the South prior to European colonization and removal. This forgotten, non‐domesticated food, is superior in flavor and most importantly nutrition than the cultivated/domesticated varieties.

Some of our products include Spring Flower Jelly, Wild Berry Jam, Sumac Jelly, and Wild Flora Jelly.

Native Plants and Seeds

Start planning for your 2022 native oasis and purchase some of our native plants and seeds. The Fall is here and this is a good time to transplant and to stock up on native seeds to cold stratify during the Winter months. Typically native seeds need a freeze‐thaw cycle of about 90 days to germinate.

Syrups

We have a variety of syrups but our premier syrup is Twin Forager Hickory Syrup Dark. It is made from the bark of the Shagbark Hickory tree and can be used in place of Maple Syrup, honey, and other natural sweeteners. It is not overly sweet and adds diverse flavors.