Hello and welcome to the last week of the spring/summer share season!
This is the last week for picking up at the Queen Anne Farmers Market! QA folx who are continuing on to the winter, I sent an email earlier about potential a new pick up location that would help decrease my driving/delivering time, please let me know if that could work for you.
It is also Indigenous People's Day. We are extremely privileged to be farming on the unceded land of the Puyallup Tribe. Indigenous people have stewarded this land far longer than we have and we hope to be good neighbors for as long as we are here.
I gave this film a shout out last year, but if you have not seen it, I really recommend the film Gather. Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native People to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. Right now, you can stream it through iTunes and Amazon Prime, but it is coming to Netflix in November! Just watching the trailer makes me cry, so you know it's going to be good and good food for thought.
A last note, is that our friends and pastured poultry farmers Bright Ide Acres (who also help provide us with eggs) has teamed up with the Seattle Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the recognized "Divine Nine" African American fraternities in the United States, to provide 50 free turkeys to underserved community members in the Central Seattle neighborhood. We need to raise $2,000 - can you help us get there? Donate on their website here. We believe that everyone deserves access to high quality, nutrient dense, well raised food and are super proud of our friends for taking this on. It takes nearly 6 months worth of work to go from chick to turkey dinner and raising animals the way they do with daily pasture moves, high quality, no corn, no soy, gmo free feed, and humane slaughter techniques.
