Small Farm Spotlight: True Earth

In this series, get to know more about the small farm operations that are using sustainable methods to help meet the local demand for fresh food. And meet the farmers that are making it happen!

Is it a farm, a farmacy, a community garden, or a fertilizer manufacturer? Well, it’s all of the above and it’s all powered by one man!

Based out of Savannah, True Earth grew from one man’s desire to provide healthy food for his family after his wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. What started as an aquaponics system in the garage led to a journey of discovery into soil health and medicine from the earth. Ultimately, the result is a line of supplements to nourish and heal the body and a line of fertilizer products to nourish and heal the soil.

True Earth consists of many components including multiple test and production farms where trials are done to test the effectiveness of the fertilizers and the potency of the end products for the farmacy. While fertilizers for soil and supplements for people seem like two completely disparate product lines, the development of the one, leads into the improvement of the other.

Claude Galipeau

Claude Galipeau is the founder of True Earth and until very recently worked full time as a power engineer for the City of Savannah. Now that he’s retired, he is looking forward to being able to devote more time to his innovative work in soil health and producing supplements and good food that is safe and chemical free.

Claude is always testing new growing methods and puts the True Earth fertilizer products to use growing turmeric, ginger and industrial hemp which are used in the True Earth Farmacy.

His farming methods and fertilizers are gaining attention through the results they produce. In 2021, True Earth grew hemp for Pretoria Fields’ CBD production. The hemp was evaluated by a third party lab. They were so impressed with the results from the hemp grown by True Earth that they shared their report.

The report indicated that not only did True Earth’s hemp produce a greater volume of CBD oil, but the oil was also a higher quality, by a fairly significant degree.

“True Earth hemp was exceptional quality. This was confirmed with the initial qualitative inspection and was reinforced with the quantitative numbers after the decarboxylation step. These quantitative results were in both the amount of oil extracted that resulted in the exceptional yields, as well as the quality of the oil, as demonstrated by the high CBD potency of the distillate.”

The fertilizers and soil improvement methods that Claude has developed can be used for small scale gardening or large-scale row farming alike. One of the latest farm products is an all natural deerdeterrent.

Look for continued innovation and new products to be developed through True Earth’s farms and partners! Products can be ordered online and the “Farmacy” in Savannah can be visited in person by appointment. For more information, visit the website and follow on Instagram!