He is a great supporter of organic farming and Community Supported Agriculture.

Angela is a caring, intelligent, and thoughtful person who is a great steward to the earth.  On Turtle Farm, grows a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, and fruits in Johnston, Iowa.   She utilizes organic growing practices for the food she produces such as using compost and cover crops for fertility. She seeks to cooperate with Nature and therefore does not use genetically modified crops or synthetic chemicals. The varieties of fruits, herbs and produce are grown for flavor and nutrition and are harvested at their peak. My family was a CSA member while I was growing up so I can personally vouch for the high quality and yummy food grown at Turtle Farm. In particular, the strawberries that we got each week never seemed to make it home as we gobbled them up on the ride home after picking up our weekly produce.

For more than fifty years Fred Lucas has been the owner of a small family farm operation on about 80 acres in southeast Iowa. As a family, we grew a wide variety of crops –corn, beans, alfalfa, oats, sweet corn, tomatoes,potatoes, peas, green beans, jalapenos, eggplant, squash, pumpkins, strawberries, watermelon, canteloup, kohlrabi, flowers of all kinds, raspberries, peaches, apples, pears, rhubarb, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, cabbage, organic chicken and eggs.  As a part of the operation Fred designed and built a hothouse to incubate plants in the early spring to transplant into the “big” garden later in the spring. Fred worked in partnership with his wife and 5 children to cultivate produce as well as the love and stewardship of the land and environment. Before organic farming was the “in” thing to do, Fred implemented innovative ways of using conservation methods and organic farming techniques to feed our immediate and extended family.