Farm Journal
In subtle and blatant ways, farmers are professionally discounted and personally discouraged. I adamantly believe agriculture can be a rewarding, and healthy full time career. By writing about my work and sharing my progress, I hope to show how organic farms and farmers enrich and strengthen the communities they serve. ~April
Joyful Farming is:
aligning life, land, and community
believing in power and possibility
restoring health and home
nurturing relationships
honoring abundance and vocation
celebrating creativity and change
“I love your newsletter. The produce is so delicious, but the spirit of the farm lives in how you both communicate with us. So grateful for you all.”
— April Joy Farm CSA Member
The Miracle of Food Carries On
So many things had to dance in perfect rhythm for this harvest day to come to fruition at April Joy Farm. The intricate relationships and timely connections are impossible to fathom.
Stories Aplenty
To all who wrote kind words of encouragement and support we say, with bowed heads and open hearts, thank you. The April Joy Farm family collectively has worked now for fifteen years to build a community of care.
Benediction
We will acknowledge this point of victory. We will revel in this outcome. We will take time, ample time, to pause and exhale and hug and cry and lift arms in celebration, in honor of what has transpired, and what it has meant to pull through. What it has meant to pull through together. To my April Joy Farm team: we have done it, together.
Nourishing Bites | A Well Seasoned Pot Part IV
My stockpot of farm memories- this mirepoix of past experiences- is now becoming greater than the sum of the parts. The net effect is like a well-seasoned cast iron pot in which each experience layers onto the next a deepening resonance of flavor- creating that intangible but essential umami.
Nourishing Bites | A Well Seasoned Pot Part III
Food connects us to all the energy that has been set in motion to write the stories of that to be. Food holds a vast reservoir of wisdom and knowing. Can you see that each bite is rooted in place and story and history? Each bite instills the eater with a legacy and with a particular resonant energy which carries forward.
Nourishing Bites | A Well Seasoned Pot Part II
This farm’s fields and rows, footpaths and gravel lanes are well traveled for me. In fact, after sixteen years of traversing this special place as an adult, and years more as an inquisitive and land loving child, I have a stock pot full of memories inside me.
Community Voices
“Your writing is superb, April! Profound, insightful, clear, honest and generous - like you. I always find some wisdom to share with the kids or illumination of my own journey. Thank you.”