Eden’s Return Mission
EdensReturn provides education giving people the ability to produce food, water, energy, shelter, and income for themselves.
Eden's Return Motto
We plant seeds of hope in people just to watch them grow.
Eden’s Return Farm
We started our business life in downtown Lansing Michigan. The VonAchen brothers started 2 restaurants in the same building. Downtown Subs and Salads and New York Burrito quickly became a favorite for the local community. We offered quality affordable food and an tranquil environment for our customers mainly consisting of Michigan State workers and college students. We also offered late night BBQ on Friday and Saturday nights which became a downtown staple. We started our first business venture in 2007 right before the 2008 crash. Over the next 8 years we watched as many businesses came and went, some of them becoming very good friends of ours. Restaurants average profit margin is around 5%. As we began to see our food costs rise every year and our profit margin drop we decided to adapt our business. As our last lease expired we made a decision to transition from a restaurant to an organic farm. Our goal behind this transition was to reduce the cost of organic food for all. We started Eden’s Return Farm in 2015 and over the last few years we have used Mother Nature as our blueprint for generating quality organic food. Mother Nature provides all the organic inputs and we provide the labor, this has allowed us to produce organic food at zero cost. We produce our own free organic compost. Adding this organic matter feeds our soil and is made from leaves, sticks, and grass. We provide our own free compost tea from growing red compost worms. These red worms turn our food waste into worm castings which is used to make the free organic compost tea fertilizer. Using heirloom seeds we are able to save and use our own free seeds annually. By setting up a solar panel and wind turbine we have been able to provide all of the farm equipment electricity needs for free. We provide energy to our plants and livestock in the form of labor and in return our plants and livestock generate energy for us in the form of food creating a symbiotic relationship. This has also provided us with a surplus of organic food to sell at the local farmers markets which covers the rest of our life expenses giving us a lifestyle that provides health and happiness. Through our learning experiences we have started to develop a sustainable farming system which can provide organic food for all. We started our page EdensReturn to share our story and to offer our F.o.o.d. B.a.n.k.™ concept to the World with the goal of reducing the cost of organic food for all.
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We can create our own jobs, provide a path towards home ownership and financial freedom, create healthier less expensive food, reduce pollution, reduce top soil erosion/nutrient run-off, reduce fertilizer/pesticide/herbicide usage, allow more land to return to a natural state preserving ecosystems, grow the economy, and eliminate food deserts at the same time!
PVC greenhouses can be made by common inexpensive readily available materials. All of the garden equipment can be bought second hand locally. Biointensive gardening information is readily available online. You can start small with the budget you can afford working your way incrementally towards your goal. We transitioned from a restaurant to a farm 3 years ago and had to go through an incremental learning process and as we started generating income from our farmers markets sales we reinvested incrementally towards our goal of making a living from the land that we live on. Our main goal is to point out that the new gold rush could be vegetables and the gold mine our backyards.
Buying 1 acre of land is a good investment.
We used www.Landwatch.com to find our farm. Farmland in Michigan is going for $1500/acre and up. Woodlands in the area you are looking is not any less. I wouldn't budget any less than that. I think the median is maybe $2000/acre in the, truly, rural zones. Toward a big economic center I would think $4000/acre is median. Purchasing 1 acre of land and one of our portable dome homes together would be no more than $7,000. I live in Michigan and the average rent in Detroit is $550 a month for a one bedroom apartment or $6,600 a year. For about the same cost as renting a one bedroom apartment for one year you could own 1 acre of land and a portable dome home and over 10 years you would save almost $60,000 in rent, over $25,000 in food costs by being able to grow your own food, and you could generate $1,000,000 in income growing vegetables. With land you have access to the base materials for growing your own food, wood for building structures and heating, the ability to collect and use your own energy and water, and the extra resources available to grow a gardening business. Selling vegetables allows you to make a good living off the land that you live on.
Check out our story and find out more information about our portable/permanent dome homes and our portable/permanent dome greenhouses on our page EdensReturn
