July 2nd, 2019

Whats in your share?

• Frisée

• Japanese Turnips

• Arugula

• Beets

• Turkish Parsley

• Snow Peas (Green and Yellow)

• Spring Onions

Whether opening your CSA share, sitting in traffic, or having a glass of wine after a hard day’s work, we are experiencing and taking part in Nature. Nature is where you are. Nature is not to be visited in the so-called preserve, or sanctioned to the imaginary pristine. Nature is not perfect. We cannot wait for perfect nature. It never was, it never will be. It is by the belief in perfect or removed nature, that we have neglected and subsequently excused the destruction of what we’ve registered as not nature. 

Our cities, neighborhoods, places of work, even our homes and bodies become places of plunder and waste, because we’ve been told - and we believe and reproduce - that they are already too far gone, too far from nature. But, no parking lot or fluorescent-lit grocery store is more or less natural than Yosemite or the Apostle Islands. By tricking ourselves into separating what is truly inseparable, we disown not only responsibility, but artistry and a faculty for contribution. 

In knowing and embodying what is really our individual indivisibility from nature, we heal the dislocations of our misunderstanding; and turn towards an active and purposeful pursuit of nature’s continual creation. Every place, thing, or creature, encountered, bought, sold, consumed, or voted for becomes a part of an infinitely shared existence. What once was absent and sought through misguided schemes of distinction and abstraction, is re-situated in our ongoing and collective creation. 

Our self.