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.  

Call it instinct, or lucky guess, but I am glad this work has taught me after all these years to listen to the voice.  Listening does not mean agreeing or committing to action.  It just means acknowledging a point of view, a wisdom beyond the black and white- beyond the material manifestation.  My wisdom told me to get our seeds ordered.

Farming will eat you alive if you don’t find a way to make peace with loss.  How you do this is up to you. There is no paint by numbers template, no tried and true method, no universal path to acceptance. There are only the facts and what you choose to do with them.