You Are What You Eat....
Jon's mother imparted those words to him at an early age. The picture on the left is Jon at three years old learning how important gardening and fresh food is to human health, and well being.
This past year of 2025 Jon and Lisa played two outdoor farm related events. The "Concert Down On The Farm" on April 26th, and the second "Farm Fest MS 2025" in Ludlow, MS. Their music and organic way of life go hand in hand.
Jon and Lisa have always believed in organic farming, and a simple way of life. God supplied his children with a regenerative planet, and it is being decimated by the wealthy and their corporations which seek to control every aspect of our lives and food supply. And they are doing just that by slow poison because of several reasons, one of which is people have grown apart from the land.
Jon's great-grandfather Rob Nicol, kept a cow for milk. Her was named "Pet." He and his wife Virgie raised five kids with a large garden, a hog or two a year, and his cow. Jon's Aunt Connie remembers what it was like to get fresh unpasteurized milk from his cow:
“We got one quart of milk every day from Grandpa Nicol’s jersey cow. Old Pet gave the richest milk every morning and evening. There was about 4 inches of thick cream at the top of that quart of milk. Mom used to make gingerbread and put rich whipped cream on top. So-o-o good!” - Connie Ferrill.
Aunt Connie lived to be ninety years old, she didn't get sick and pass away from unpasteurized milk. Today unless you have a dairy goat or cow of your own, most people are not going to know just how good raw milk tastes. Politicians and bureaucratic red tape have erased what was normal and natural since the time of Adam and Eve.
Jon and Lisa came from a small town of 1,300 people that has all but dwindled away. But it wasn't always that way as Aunt Connie explains:
“Stores very seldom turned off the lights on Saturday or locked their doors before 11:30 or midnight. Each store donated merchandise for their own drawing. Farmers brought in their surplus eggs to sell to the grocers, but the government, in its wisdom decided that farmers could not sell direct to stores in 1950”. - Connie Ferrill
"Family farms have also dwindled, with many being held by large corporations. Giving rise to the factory farm over the family farm.Today, as long as the local grocery stores are well-stocked, people flow in and out of them like ants at a picnic. People are like water; they take the path of least resistance. Instead of growing and maintaining their own garden plots in their own backyards, they raid store shelves. Even a small backyard or a window sill garden is better than no garden. Food companies continue to manufacture unhealthy, chemical-laden products for a primarily uncaring society. I have watched people in stores as they shop. Suppose there is a product with a healthy version and an unhealthy generic version right next to the healthy one. In that case, many people will choose the cheaper, unhealthy generic one. I read labels while trying to shop wisely and carefully. The list of chemicals to look out for is too many to list; however, HFCS, High Fructose Corn Syrup, MSG, Monosodium Glutamate, BHA, Butylated Hydroxyanisol, Aspartame, and TBHQ, Tertiary Butylhydroquinone, are a few of the many dangerous chemicals added to food and drinks. Not to mention GMOs, Genetically Modified Organisms. A general rule to follow is that if you cannot pronounce the name, don't put it in your mouth. Some people will argue that chemicals in food occur naturally, that is true. The difference is that naturally occurring chemicals come from God, not man." - From our book Uncharted Currents: My Life Growing Up On The Mississippi River (Lulu Press) by Jon and Lisa Kukuk (Copyright 2022)