It was decided that the first week of work/distribution will be the week of June 13. My first work day is the afternoon of Wednesday June 15. (My Wednesday workshift will mostly be preparing for the distribution that occurs on Thursdays.) We will probably be working until mid-November.
There was an article in the local newspaper today about a close rural area now becoming a popular suburb, and how agri-businesses are being enticed to sell their land for further development. My work-farm was mentioned since the property is currently leased and may very well be under consideration to be re-purposed. This was my online response:
"Farming is not clean nor pretty nor easy nor wildly profitable. Done well, (as in the case of Mud Creek Farms), it strives to be personal, transparent and natural in this world of overly convenient, non-nutritious, chemically loaded, plastic wrapped food. Eating is an agricultural act as Wendell Berry writes. And thus good food production takes a community of dedicated farmers with good land and clean (i.e. chemically safe) water, and participants willing to understand the efforts and costs it takes for the food producers NOT cram thousands of chickens into a henhouse, or spray down pesticides or herbicides. Whether the effort is personal (raised beds in the city,or a few acres on hobby farm) or more commercial (CSAs, farmer markets), food is about the very real and eternal connection between people, life, nature and well-being. The profit-driven decision in land development for another economically (and class) segregated community -- or even more franchise themed stores (to litter our lives with more stuff we are told we need to buy) -- in no way can compare to the values of relationship, sustainability and good stewardship."
There was an article in the local newspaper today about a close rural area now becoming a popular suburb, and how agri-businesses are being enticed to sell their land for further development. My work-farm was mentioned since the property is currently leased and may very well be under consideration to be re-purposed. This was my online response:
"Farming is not clean nor pretty nor easy nor wildly profitable. Done well, (as in the case of Mud Creek Farms), it strives to be personal, transparent and natural in this world of overly convenient, non-nutritious, chemically loaded, plastic wrapped food. Eating is an agricultural act as Wendell Berry writes. And thus good food production takes a community of dedicated farmers with good land and clean (i.e. chemically safe) water, and participants willing to understand the efforts and costs it takes for the food producers NOT cram thousands of chickens into a henhouse, or spray down pesticides or herbicides. Whether the effort is personal (raised beds in the city,or a few acres on hobby farm) or more commercial (CSAs, farmer markets), food is about the very real and eternal connection between people, life, nature and well-being. The profit-driven decision in land development for another economically (and class) segregated community -- or even more franchise themed stores (to litter our lives with more stuff we are told we need to buy) -- in no way can compare to the values of relationship, sustainability and good stewardship."
