June 1st, 2021
What’s in your share?
Radishes
Japanese Salad Turnips
Romaine Lettuce
Salad Mix
Cilantro
Kale
Spinach
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
First Harvest! We’re so excited to share the veggies we’ve been planning all winter and tending all spring. This spring has brought incredible conditions for growing, albeit a little dry. Things are growing fast with all this heat (note the huge spinach and leaves in the salad mix). We’re definitely excited about how the crops and the field are looking after a spring of immaculate bed prep, endless wheelbarrow loads of compost, and an ever deepening appreciation of our place within the farm and it’s context within the broader ecosystem.
Thank you. Thinking about each and every one of you - your participation, generosity, risk, and trust - commands a hope, a love, and a spirited, yet calming, awakening deep within. Our gratitude cannot be said or expressed enough. Through acts such as these we enter into something greater than any one of us alone, something even greater than each of us combined, something rare and truly wondrous.
We find ourselves in a historic moment, and from these circumstances we are presented equally historic opportunities for change, and for growth. Almost weekly it appears we enter an even more imminent culmination of crises - ongoing environmental destruction and climate destabilization, a global pandemic, domestic militarization and never ending war abroad, and mass poverty amidst opulence.
At the crossroads of this moment and its ensuing crises lay our food and agriculture system. The corporate dominated food system is - at best - broken, though arguably functioning exactly according to plan. We need to re-localize and retake control over our most basic necessities, while simultaneously supporting regional cooperation and international solidarity. While regulation and reform is important, it is not enough; we need redistributive Justice for the environment, the landless, the workers, everyday people, and future generations.
It is our belief that Peace and Justice is arrived at by providing and demonstrating a viable alternative. That is why we join millions of small-scale farmers and peasants around the world whose practices, rooted in place and experience, have long provided nutritional food, environmental stewardship, and dignified work for their families and communities.
Though seriously valued, our praxis is not always one taken place in the streets, town halls, the polls, or online surveys. Surely the comparison is too self-assuring, but in harmony with India’s Salt March and Mahatma Gandhi spinning cloth, so too do we set our sights on the mundane, though absolutely crucial, daily rituals. In coming together to provide our most basic necessities we approach a shared self-sufficiency, or for Gandhi, Swadeshi, subsequently enabling our protest of injustice and our active non-cooperation with it, Satiagraha.
We are in it for the long haul and are forever grateful for your solidarity.