Small farms (and Harvest Tide) are human-powered
This newsletter has been floating around in my head since last week, but I honestly didn't have the energy to write it and the words wouldn't come. I don't really now either, but I'm already running behind with the email this week, so why not.
It's been a tough few weeks on the farm, and that reality has me thinking a lot about what's important. I don't mean tough like the weather or pests (most things are growing happy and healthy if a little weedy) - I mean like the humans behind all your veggies have been dealing with the stuff of life over the past few weeks. Injuries, hard family stuff, illness, have pulled people (including Eric and I) away from the farm to deal with other priorities over the last few weeks. Watching the farm adapt to having fewer hands (including my own at times) than needed in a busy time should cause me stress, and in other years, it has - a lot. But looking around at all the wonderful, hard-working folks that harvest, wash, pack and deliver your veggies each week, seeing and talking to our customers each week, I feel more like: "it's gonna be ok." (OK maybe I'm a little stressed, but much less than in the past). Because this is what it means to support small farms and this is why small businesses matter. People are the priority. Sometimes those people are customers, sometimes those people are your farmers, but we are all a community and we take care of each other.
This brings me around to the idea that this is why small-farms and small businesses are human-powered and why that is awesome. Being part of a CSA is more than a seed+sunshine+work+$$=food transaction, it's seeing farming as a community and human endeavor. Hopefully you feel this when you interact with us, I know this week we're feeling it
Our U-pick field will open at 9 AM Sunday 7/18. This will be one day later than planned as I need tomorrow to get things ready. We'll send out an email with all the details you need tomorrow :)
Three of your farmers trellising in the tomato jungle!
