COVID-19: SEASON PROGRESSING AS USUAL
We hope this finds you all healthy and safe in this challenging time. We wanted to let you know that Kayta, Anna, Kate and I are planting out the season according to plan — and we expect to be able to start CSA pick-ups around the first week of June. We feel honored and privileged to be able to forge ahead to provide food for our community... especially in times like these. We will be monitoring the situation and make sure we are practicing all safety precautions when pick-up starts to help protect everyone from COVID-19.
Now entering peak cover crop glory. Our oat, barley, pea, bell bean, vetch and clover is really starting to explode with all the warmth!
ONLY A FEW SHARES LEFT
We have about 8 slots available in our 2020 CSA program currently. We'd love it if these new members came from your friends and family networks.
Now, more than ever, we see the importance and resiliency of local, regeneratively grown food. Seasonal food harvested that morning, or fresh from the plant by ones own hand, is nutrient dense, vibrant, and healthful in a ways that distantly grown produce cannot be. Distribution systems like ours, direct from the field to you, keeps food and keeps food and farmers growing right here in our community. A living relationship between the soil, the creatures, the farmers and those eating from a farm glues a community together and glues us to the farmland we all steward in essential ways. And as you know — a weekly flower garden ritual is food for the soul.
All necessary info and sign-up form can be found on our website.
FARMSTAND CLOSED
Due to dwindling supplies, and the need to focus all our energy on the lead up to our 2020 harvest season we’ve decided to close our farmstand. We wanted to encourage members who can safely (and legally) do so, to patronize the Sebastopol farmer’s market and other local food outlets. It is important to support local food systems and food producers in times like these!
It’s going to be a good strawberry year!
FARMER’S LOG
It has been surreal here on the farm. As then world faces this crisis, farmers must continue the work. This is a solace and a privilege, but can feel strange to carry on as the whole human world fluxes and changes.
Spring is one of the best times of year to work outside on the farm. The light is soft; the soil is soft; the plants — even the weeds — are soft. The whole world is newborn… and the landscape glows in green peach fuzz.
Early spring is project time on the farm: A brief window when our workdays are not ruled by harvesting and planting crops, which we use to accomplish things that will make our lives easier during the harvest season. On the docket this year we have: Increasing our water storage tank supply; expanding the cold frame (the area for curing plants outside the greenhouses); building a new walk-in cooler; building a root vegetable washer (yes, that exists!); INSTALLING A NEW GARDEN GATE and various other little improvements and repairs around the farm!
When we’re not working on projects we dote on the garden (which is beginning to awaken) and our 500 ft of new strawberries. Today we began work installing a new 140 ft native hedgerow along the walking path to the farm — thank you members for your generous donations to our Native Habitat Restoration Fund. It really warms our hearts. We can’t wait to plant the oaks, milkweed, sneezeweed and penstemon that Kayta started from saved seed amongst manzanitas, ceanothus, coffee-berry and more!
We were thrilled this week to welcome Anna Dozor back to a weekly schedule. And the three of us couldn’t be happier to be welcome Kate Beilharz into the full-time crew fold this year! Kayta and I consider ourselves tremendously lucky to be able to work with these two incredible farmers… 2020 is going to be a blast.
Well, folks, you know where to find us now: Out in the waste high cover crop, getting sun-kissed cheeks and watching our tender Winter hands turn to leather again!
We can’t wait to share the harvest season of abundance with you all!
Wishing you all health and security in this challenging time.
See you in the fields,
David (for Kayta, Anna & Kate)
