July Tenth, 2019 All too often in life we long for all that which we do not have in front of us. We wish for our children to be older, for winter when it’s too hot, for summer when it’s too cold. We wish for tomatoes in the Spring and Strawberries in the Fall. We […]
July Third, 2019 The farm is a beehive. It is a hustle and bustle of people, warmth, harvest and activity. The season is young, the energy is high and everyone is excited to be working together! It has been a wet beehive, but a humming, strumming buzzing hive between storms none-the less. If the sun […]
June Twenty Sixth, 2019 The summer solstice seemed to get the message across to the fireflys that it was now okay to come out in full force. These gorgeous summer evenings twinkle with the magic that they embody due to their presence. The monarchs are finally ubiquitous while temperatures shyly creep into the 80’s. This […]
June Nineteenth I often wish I could get Farmer Adam to write a Newsletter for us. His perspective, especially as the lead farmer these days, would be fascinating to hear. He’s a man of few words that works mostly quietly and keeps to himself most of the time. Yet, he has a steadiness and […]
June Tenth, 2019 (Brassic Fields Forever) I like to use an early newsletter to introduce ourselves. It’s a bit of repeat for the returning CSA members, but fun for our new members who really don’t know the faces behind the food. I also find that I retell the story differently each year as the story […]
June Fifth, 2019 A new season feels like a kind of rebirth. Or like a granted wish. A little like a second chance, a pardon or forgiveness. We start a new season with all of the experience and memories of the cumulative seasons past. We remember the good the bad and the ugly. With last […]
March Twenty-Sixth, 2019 I’m always looking for fun ways to help our CSA members get creative and feel inspired in the kitchen. The last thing we want is for you to feel is overwhelmed by your huge box of vegetables and for you to want them to stop coming! We want you to want to […]
My top three favorite reasons to support a CSA farm are the lovely trio of FRESH, LOCAL and ORGANIC that dance together hand-in-hand so beautifully going round and round in a girl-like frolly. Hello Fresh and Blue Apron might be offering trendy recipes, customizable dinner boxes and at-your-door delivery, but they will never, ever be […]
October Seventeenth With the final summer share delivery comes a bittersweet feeling. I feel thankful for the slower days ahead and the relief of the rigid harvest-pack-deliver-repeat routine. While I take comfort, contentment and security in our predictable summer schedule, the opportunity for rest and restoration is welcome. But with the end of a harvest […]
October Tenth Rain makes mud. An impressive streak of rain has been falling on the farm these last few weeks. While we haven’t been getting too much rainfall at one time, we have been getting subsequient storms that make it so that after one storm passes, another is shortly behind. Very few days in the […]
October Third The best parts about being a CSA member are knowing that a percentage of your food dollars are still circulating locally, that you are eating fresh, local, organic and seasonal veggies every week and that you get amusing newsletters from the farm and invites to on-farm events that help enrich your connection to […]
September Twenty-Sixth I have always taken such reprieve in the Fall. It feels like a reward for good behavior and hard work. The bountiful harvest, the milder temperatures, and the lower humidity are amongst my most humble appreciations. I wish only to enter winter warm, tired and surrounded by piles of stashed nuts, seeds, fruits […]
September Nineteenth We had a wonderful turn out for our Fall Raspberry and Pumpkin Pick and Potluck farm party last Sunday. The weather was perfect and many members of the farm made the trip out to take a look at where their food is coming from and pick a few berries. We couldn’t have been […]
September Twelfth I’m not much of a TV person. I’m too busy to find time for it, but on occasion I catch a glimpse of something that looks interesting. Anthony Bourdaine’s cooking and travel shows that my mom used to watch would catch my attention long enough to slow me down for a few minutes. […]
Rain, Rain. Go away! September Fifth We have simply had enough rain now. I typically do the writing part of the newsletters for the week on Monday nights. Last week on Monday night after I had saved and closed my word document and went to sleep, a whopping 10 inches of rain fell in the […]
August Twenty-Nineth One of the most beautiful parts of being part of a CSA farm is the connection to weather patterns and the seasons. There may have been days when you were at work or at home and noticed the storm coming in, the heat wave or that is has been dry lately. You maybe […]
August Twenty-Second The farm entered a new chapter this week. We are beginning to feel a seasonal shift. Maybe it was brought in with the rain we had or maybe it is because the sweet corn ended or because the zucchinis and cucumbers are ending. We also got a reprieve from the heat the […]
August Fifteenth I have discovered that making dinner is my meditation. It clears my mind. It is the ritual that resets my brain, comforts me and brings me ‘home’ again. I’ve always been too much of a busy-body to deeply delve into meditation. I’m not against it, just wired in a way where I can’t […]
August Eighth Perhaps one of the most beautiful things about the farm is the people. We package up these colorful, cute and tasty little boxes that are lovingly and quite strategically tucked together with care. And when they are finally delivered, all you get to see and experience are merely the vegetables themselves lying naked […]
August First The electric fence Farmer Adam put up around the sweet corn is a success. It has been successfully keeping the raccoons out so far. Although there is (quite mysteriously) a very small amount of damage each night. Perhaps there is a very sneaky little baby raccoon, maybe the runt of the littler who […]