Some might liken the season on the veggie farm as an Ironman Triathlon as the end of our first section called the spring marathon and now we enter into summer. I think a good mark for the end of spring is when we harvest our last beds of spinach which we just did this summer. We now enter into the next leg called summer, which is market by less planting and weeding but with more irrigation, trellising, pest scouting and the beginnings of the picking crops which will mark the last leg of the farm season race. I have just received reports of giant Zucchini sightings out at the other farm. So one might mark the beginning of the second leg better with the end of spinach and the first loaf of Z-Bread to go into the freezer for the winter.
           This second leg of the season also finds us picking crops late into the long evenings, literally reaping what we have sowed. These long days allow you to really think about life and our paths through it. The quote that I have chosen as the title of this post has been my theme for picking snap peas. Picking snap peas lets us limber up for the beans, tomatoes, and squash that will soon come.
    To think of our actions having consequences is a novel thought in these times but I think about all our members and loyal community customers, all eaters, whom are choosing with their purchases to allow us to farm in a good way and to learn to farm even better and more sustainably each season. Eating is truly an agricultural act and our choices of food are indirectly our choices of how we would like the world used and how we would like our resources treated as well as how we would like our community to function. Your choice to purchase, eat, and celebrate food which is thoughtfully and well raised allows you to shape your local and global environment and truly learn what it means to live in place, both the joys and the challenges. It is a beautiful thing that I think about daily and I know that we are truly honored to be able to do this for a living and we hope to continue doing it for the rest of our lives. Each year we make strides to farm even more sustainably and in place and then in turn bring even better and more wholesome products from our fields to your family's table. Thanks for your commitment. It is an honor.

See you at market,
Nic