08/23/2026
My journey as a business owner
began at Freedom Harvest Farms
in March 2011...
when I began developing a farm stand
and delivering produce.
That beginning pulled me
into public-facing social entrepreneurship.
I developed and launched
the Corpus Christi Downtown Farmers’ Market...
and eventually founded
Grow Local South Texas.
For the next decade...
I poured myself into building
public community infrastructure.
I created programs, secured funding,
developed partnerships
and opened opportunities for farmers.
I helped reconnect a community
with the people growing its food.
I learned how to create value
for the public.
Then I had to learn
how to build something
that could also sustain me.
This photograph was taken
on July 2, 2021.
It was my first pop-up farm stand
after deciding to make
my private business
my primary focus again.
I moved back to Taft
that September...
and began rebuilding my work
from my family homestead,
Freedom Harvest Farms.
By 2023...
my private business had become
my only source of income.
It was not a clean
or carefully planned transition.
I moved through personal trauma,
tragedies, accidents, loss
and enormous change.
There were moments
when the life I had known
was stripped away...
and I had to ask myself
what was still mine to create.
I grew food while I was healing.
I restored soil
while rebuilding trust in myself.
I taught what the land
was teaching me.
I turned my experience
in food systems, communications,
education, wellness
and community organizing...
into something
that could sustain my life.
In 2025...
I made it official
and established
IT’S JUST AISLYNN, LLC.
Since this photograph was taken...
I have grown gardens, food,
orchards and relationships.
I have raised animals, restored soil
and learned the changing rhythms
of this land.
I have created cooking experiences,
tours, classes, consultations,
healing sessions, volunteer days,
community gatherings, deliveries
and a farm stand.
I have taught, spoken, cooked, written,
created content
and built partnerships.
But the greatest thing
being regenerated
at Freedom Harvest Farms...
has been me.
I spent a decade learning
how to create value for the public.
Then I had to learn
how to r