After we picked up our cheese at Whole Foods, we moseyed on across the street to visit Farmer D's and see if what we'd heard about their Can-O-Worms was true. I had first heard of Farmer D when I read about the work Holly Elmore and the Green Foodservice Alliance, along with a bunch of confederates including Farmer D, were doing to turn downtown Atlanta into a Zero Waste Zone. I had first heard about a can o' worms when my mother said I shouldn't open one.

But then we were at Shorty's, like I was telling you the other day, and fellow diner Barbara and our wonderful server who were both urban farmers, composters and recyclers, started raving about Farmer D's. Turns out they had both gotten their Can O' Worms there, and neither of them had experienced the kind of fallout my mother had always warned me about. In fact, their worms were hard at work churning out wholesome dirt for their gardens even as we spoke.

Of course, we had to go see it for ourselves.



When we got there I was a lot more intrigued by the chickens than the worms. Farmer D's has a whole flock of them, along with the little coops on rollers to keep them in. As you move the coop from spot to spot in your yard, the chickens will fertilizer your lawn a few square feet at time, eat the bugs (including mosquitoes) and make fresh, chemical-free eggs for you to eat. What more could you hope for in a pet? (And Larry, I hope you're reading this.)



Farmer D provides education and consulting services for urban farmers, community gardeners and schools as well as selling all sorts of tools, seedlings, compost and fertilizer - everything you could possibly need to launch into growing your own healthy, organic food. If you're ready to go green and think you might want to start with your thumbs, Farmer D's is for you.