It is said good things take time, I would add nurturing equanimity and goodness with ourselves and each other takes intention and true laboring. Laboring that is sometimes tedious, sometimes meticulously difficult and full of weedy doubt. Regardless, at every turn, there is opportunity for blessings and encouragement, for filling each moment with listening and loving.

I love onion harvesting too, because even if I must work under the sometimes broiling heat, the aroma of fresh onions hangs in the air, sending my thoughts to the restfulness of cool fall weather and deliciously hearty winter soups. I know the intensity of this hot weather- it too, will not last forever, which makes everything more tolerable.

Our Farm to Heart CSA families get to choose every item in their share, every single week. We want all our families to have a sense of agency with respect to what they choose to eat. If food is life, then good food must be community.

The farmers and the animals, we experience this same world very differently. We humans are surrounded by role models, and it is good to remember they each have very distinct personalities, desires, and countenances. All are going about their lives, breathing and eating and sleeping and traveling and building and loving in their own way.

Seeds are not one size fits all, and it is a tragedy when they are treated as unchanging widgets that can be commodified.  Seeds are adapted to and changed by the environment they find themselves in, and for low-input growers such as myself, it’s what’s inside that makes or breaks our farms.