Blackberry season is over. Thirty-one pints, eight customers, every single one sold. If you got a pint from us this year, you already know — pesticide-free, hand-picked, gone before most people even knew we had them.
But here’s the thing about farming. The harvest ends. The canes go dormant. The butternut squash is still sixty-plus days out. And the farm doesn’t stop needing attention just because there’s nothing to sell. A steward doesn’t clock out when the season changes — he pivots.
“A steward doesn’t clock out when the season changes — he pivots.”
So I made a song.
The Story Behind “Marietta Blackberries”
If you’ve read our blog, you already know how Steward Farms started. It wasn’t a business plan. It wasn’t a side hustle. It was my son Josiah. He loved blackberries, and I got tired of paying grocery store prices for fruit I didn’t trust. So I planted some canes in the backyard. No pesticides. No chemicals. No shortcuts. Just faith, sweat, and rain.
The canes came back stronger than I expected. We had more than we could eat. My wife Gen looked at the freezer full of berries from the year before and said, “Why don’t you sell them?”
I didn’t overthink it. I listed them. People showed up. They came back. They told their neighbors. We sold out. What started as a dad trying to feed his family turned into Steward Farms — a pesticide-free blackberry micro-farm right here in Marietta, Georgia.
That story — the faith behind it, the dirt under the fingernails, the sweetness at the end — was bigger than a Facebook post. It was bigger than a product listing. It deserved its own moment.
Why AI Production?
Let me be clear — I’m a music producer. I know how to make music. I’ve been doing it for years. But right now, between running my business, homeschooling my son, managing the farm, and building a tissue culture lab so we can scale our blackberry plants for next year — there are not enough hours in the day.
AI production tools let me take the concept I had in my head, write the lyrics myself, direct the sound I wanted, and get a finished track without spending weeks in the studio. The creative vision is mine. Every word is mine. The story is mine. The production is assisted — the same way I’d bring in a session musician to play what I hear in my head. I direct. They execute.
“The creative vision is mine. Every word is mine. The story is mine. The production is assisted.”
The result is a song that sounds exactly like what I wanted it to sound like, and it exists because I refused to let a busy schedule kill a good idea.
What The Song Is About
“Marietta Blackberries” follows the Steward Farms story from beginning to harvest.
The first verse puts you in the backyard — planting canes for my son, no sprays, nothing to hide, just sunshine and faith. The second verse is what happened when word got out — neighbors showing up, hand to hand, fresh from the farm, the way God planned it.
The chorus is the heart of it. If you’ve read our post “What Makes a Blackberry Sweet”, you know where this comes from. God designed the sweetness. He made the fruit before we ever asked for it. The chorus captures that in one line — “God designed the harvest, tell me that ain’t sweet.”
“Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.’”
Genesis 1:29The bridge is the moment I step back and just say thank you. He didn’t have to make them sweet. But He did. He didn’t have to feed us from the cane. But He did. Every berry is proof He’s good. Every harvest understood.
That’s not just a song. That’s what I believe every time I walk out to those canes.
Why $2.99?
This isn’t a record label release. There’s no distribution deal. There’s no marketing budget. This is a farmer selling direct — the same way I sell blackberries. Hand to hand. You support Steward Farms, you get something real in return.
Every dollar from this song goes right back into the farm. It keeps the canes maintained. It funds the tissue culture lab we’re building to multiply our best plants. It bridges the gap between blackberry season and butternut squash harvest. $2.99 is less than a pint of berries, and you get to keep the song forever.
What’s Coming Next
The farm doesn’t sleep. It just changes seasons.
Butternut squash is coming this fall — pesticide-free, grown the same way we grow everything. This winter, we’ll have tissue culture blackberry plants available for sale. We’re cloning our best genetics so you can grow the same thornless, pesticide-free blackberries we grow, right in your own backyard. New merch is live on our website too.
And more music? We’ll see. When the story calls for it, the song will follow.
Steward C.
Founder of Steward Farms in Marietta, Georgia. Growing pesticide-free blackberries for his family, his community, and eventually his son Josiah’s future. Music producer. Web developer. Farmer by calling.
