Our Values
We are a family owned and operated farmstead dedicated to delivering the highest quality food and wellness products to our community. Do you know who picked, processed, or packaged all the food in your home? If knowing where, and more importantly who your food is coming from is important to you- You've come to the right place!
Mindfulness
We are mindful of our place in the World as caretakers of Gods creation, the impact we have on the environment, and the needs of our community. We view profit as a byproduct of good stewardship.
Learning
We are dedicated to self-improvement as well as how we do business. We prize innovation and experimentation alongside competency in traditional skill sets. We embrace change and respect new ideas.
Integrity
We do not compromise on our principles no matter the circumstances. We conduct our business by the same standards we hold ourselves to. We practice honesty, fairness, and the ethical treatment of people and animals.
Empathy
We acknowledge the human condition and always seek understanding in all of our interactions with others. We believe in fostering genuine relationships by serving neighbors not just clients.
Loyalty
We are committed to our faith, family, village, and country. If any potential profit conflicts with these interests we do not pursue it. We support our immediate community and patronize American businesses exclusively.
Resilience
We cultivate grit and aspire to be as self-sufficient in order to persevere in any situation. We adapt to setbacks and see adversity as opportunity to grow. We admonish complacency and never give up.
Our Story
From Nothing to Something
Long Ago Lake Farmstead was founded by Amber and Justin Miller, husband and wife, in Lake Village, Indiana in 2025. Before that, it was Long Ago Lake Homestead, and before that it was just, well, a home. We moved to Lake Village in 2019 with big dreams of leaving behind the hustle and bustle of suburban life and living a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Those dreams were inspired years before we found our oasis amongst the corn stalks. We started out from humble beginnings in a hand-me-down camper trailer with barely two pennies to rub together. We used to daydream about modifying our house-on-wheels into a mobile off-grid cabin and disappearing together into the great wilderness to live off the land. Those castles in the air vanished like a wisp of smoke upon realizing that our family was about to grow. In 2017 our first child was born and we decided we'd better find somewhere to put down some roots for raising children. That's when we started to think and dream bigger.
Justin joined the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman and left Amber to care for the new baby and find a suitable location for homesteading. Though we had no inheritance, nest egg, or windfall we were determined to work hard to find somewhere safe and serene for our burgeoning family to call our own. We visited Lake Village, Indiana in the footprint of the ancient Beaver Lake (the "Long Ago Lake"), surrounded by open fields and friendly faces and immediately knew this was where our children would call home.
We spent several years reverting the property back to a homestead with a garden, chickens, bees, and a mini orchard with hundreds of other pet projects along the way. Another Miller baby joined us in 2022 and she has never known any other way of living. Justin is always bringing home what others give away or throw out to build new things, he is quite keen on upcycling, reading about and experimenting with permaculture projects. He also enjoys being active in the community, serving as a volunteer on the Lake Township Volunteer Fire Department and participating in local charity events. Amber is an aspiring herbalist and loves developing naturalist lesson plans for homeschooling our two children. We get a sense of deep fulfillment and purpose by nurturing life and watching it grow in all its forms so we came to the decision that it was the right path for our family to provide for ourselves by providing for others. The idea to transition from trying to build a self-sufficient homestead to a community-sustaining farmstead was born.
Our Mission
"Let food be thy medicine"
This quote is often attributed to Hippocrates who is regarded as the father of Western medicine. Numerous venerable sages have emphasized the role of a natural diet in maintaining and restoring health. Though this quote never appeared in any of Hippocrates' works, it has remained true throughout the ages and perfectly illustrates our belief in a time-tested approach to health and wellness.
Many have become aware in recent years that there is something very wrong with the modern systems that feed and treat us. Our mission is to provide an alternative to ultra-processed food and synthetic pharmaceuticals by offering real natural food and wellness products that promote the regeneration of human bodies, the land, and our communities by reestablishing the roots of American self-reliance and sustainable living.
"Big Pharma" churns out new medications year by year that treat symptoms but fail to address the origins of illnesses. Commercial farmers face immense pressure to go along with temporary solutions offered by "Big Ag" that are neither sustainable nor benign, pushing the land to its breaking point and endangering ecosystems. "Big food" prioritizes profit over health and even the ethical treatment of livestock. Millions of animals go to waste while diseases spread like wildfire through crowded facilities as we see more cases of food-borne illness each year from produce distributors.
The results of excessive industrialization speak for themselves- We are more sick than ever before. Our soil is more vulnerable than ever before. Our way of life is being threatened by the very industries that sought to secure it.