August 13th, 2025
What’s in Your Share
Yellow Onions
Cherry Tomatoes
Heirloom and Slicing Tomatoes
Poblano Peppers
Carrots
Eggplant
Basil
Before you call, we did not forget your salad mix. Between the extreme heat and rain, this week’s salad mix (and potentially next weeks) has either gone to seed early (something we farmers call bolting), has been bruised and shredded by incessantly large rain drops, or drowned. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Speaking of patients, this week we had another slight setback. Sam (actually me typing this newsletter - I’m not completely out of work…), woke Saturday to a mild turned extreme case cellulitis on his elbow and surrounding arm. The size of my elbow more than doubled and left me immobilized, feverish, and a wee bit grouchy. After a couple hospital visits and dropping an undiscriminating nuke on my body’s bacterial community (antibiotics), I am happily on the up and up. I wonder what the comparable dose of neem oil is to 100mg Doxycycline… Either way, thank you modern medicine; infection is a scary one, and I wouldn’t want to have to experience it without pharmaceuticals.
And finally, speaking of thanks - my sincerest thanks to all of our workshares this week for showing up big and holding down the fort. Like a mama pit protecting her pups, our team is ferociously dedicated and we are all so thankful for you. Ali and Alex, ya’ll crushed! Alex, on his way to becoming a bonafide farmer, took the lead mowing and weed whacking the vegetable field this week; might sound easy to the unexperienced, but, oh boy, it is truly the business of champions in farming. Ali, the amount we lean on your farm mastery daily already deserves a gold medal. The knowing, that you are still here when another is not, is the bridge from restless to rest. Sara, sounds weird, but sometimes I wish we would only get sick or injured together. It’s really hard watching your loved ones sweatin a double, while you’re laid up sweatin through a double layer of sheets. Thank you.
Being injured or sick is super scary; and as much as our farm promotes the wellbeing of our more-than-farmer selves, it’s even more scary not knowing when you’ll be able to work again. The plant’s don’t stop growing and y’all don’t stop eating. Other than every one else working more, which quickly run up on its limits, we are continually looking towards methods and mindsets to more thoroughly ensure a synthesis of healthy farm and healthy farmer.
