Welcome to your fourth CSA share of the season! We are excited to bring you lots of new, exciting produce this week. Also we wanted to take a moment to highlight the wonderful garden interns who are essential in bringing you delicious, beautiful produce this season. They are the true garden superheroes!
Hi! I’m Justina (on the left), an intern at Spoon Full Farm this season. Most days you’ll find me in the garden with flowers in my hair, weeding with my beloved scuffle hoe and dancing in between the tomato rows. Why do I farm? Well, sometimes the simplest of questions are the hardest to answer...I never considered agriculture as a career until I started to study for an Associates degree in Baking and Pastry. About a month into my program, I had a revelation. I realized I didn’t know where any of the ingredients I was using were coming from, nor how they were grown. So after finishing pastry school, I moved to Maine to study Sustainable Agriculture at a tiny environmental college in a tiny town in Maine called Unity. I started farming in 2016, and haven’t looked back - I was hooked the moment I harvested my first ever vegetable: a carrot, which I seeded and tended to. I farm for many reasons, but at the root of it, farming is an occupation that gives and keeps on giving - growing food responsibility and providing high quality food (for you) fulfills my heart and soul.
Hi! I’m Emma (on the right) an intern at Spoon Full Farm. An engineering by training, I find our organic, no-till garden to be the ultimate challenge as well as the most fulfilling and delicious place to spend my days. I stumbled into farming after struggling to find a job after college and have returned to it to live out my values of caring for the earth. This season I have become obsessed with soil health and cover crops, and am excited to be able to provide delicious, nutrient dense produce while increasing the biodiversity and soil health in the garden.
Happy eating,
Your Spoon Full farmers
