What I am slowly learning in the farming process is that being a farmer and farming is about limits of the place. You might say, yes of course why wouldn't t it be. Well, as we grow into our farm and become farmers we read, dream, and scheme about what to grow, how to grow it, how much to grow, and many other things. Alas most of those readings are published either from academia or from other geographic places and the part of it is that we are farming in one exact place only.  That place being a high desert climate which receives very little annual precipitation, is very windy, had wildly unpredictable weather,  has antiquated water laws, and highly inflated property values.  What this means is that the way we can farm here is drastically different than what we read and hear about. Of course every place has it's own unique challenges and no place is perfect by any means. But as we grow into our roles as stewards of the this place we learn the limits of this place and what it can or can't do. And in those limits you can find the potential of the place and explore your ability to work with those limits and forces. You find freedom.

Becoming a farmer and farming is a lifelong process that we are privileged to be a part of both in those moments of beauty and in the headaches.  We love what we do and would not chose anything else.

See you at market!
Nic