It's the last place you'd ever expect to find a farm.
Smack in the middle of Little Haiti is a two-acre plot of land where roosters, pigs and emus roam free.
"When you see the houses in the front and you see the neighborhood," said Phil Seidler, who moved to the farm last September, "You'd never expect to walk through the house and into a paradise."
Seidler is one of about 20 or so people who live at Earth N Us Farm at 7630 Northeast 1st Ave. in Miami.
"It's like you're living in the jungle in the middle of a major city," said Seidler, a retired stockbroker from New York.
Ray Chasser, who's owned the farm for 33 years, says the front door is always open and anyone is allowed inside. Some people live in treehouses, others in tents.
"Most people that hear about it and then come here say, 'wow, you can't do it justice until you see it,'" said Chasser.
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While NBC Miami visited the farm, an emu tried to eat our microphone, and then later Chasser's pony-tail. In one area, Chasser is raising earthworms in a bathtub full of compost. In another he has an organic garden with fruit and vegetables. And he's also harvesting bees.
Chasser owns the houses surrounding the farm and the rent money keeps the place going. But it's the oddity of it all that makes Earth N Us so special.
Inside, you've got people from all over the world, living alongside farm animals and growing organic food.
But outside is another story.
"There's prostitutes on the streets everyday, homeless, crackheads...everything," said Chasser. "It seems to be part of the magic here."
