Upcoming Produce in Season
-Tomatoes (slicers, cooking tomatoes, and cherry tomatoes)
-Squash and Zucchini
-Green beans
-Cucumbers
-Flower bouquets
Pick your own herbs (come by the stand and ask for clippers and a bag):
-Basil
-Parsley
-Cilantro
-Sage
-Oregano
-Rosemary
-Thyme
Coming soon: Peppers, eggplant, and okra!
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Farm Update
I don't know about you but the summer makes me grumpy. It's not my season of spiritual uplifting or elevated prayer. It's a season when all of my vices come out and I just whine at God: Lord, why do I live somewhere that is so hot and muggy? Why did you create fire ants? Why am I sweating at 7:30am in the morning? All of the winter coziness of my morning prayers with a hot cup of tea departs and instead my only solitude with God is when I'm lying on my couch in a zombie-like state after a day in the heat, moaning to Him. I end up watching Anne of Green Gables films and wishing I lived in Canada.
Yet God, in his mercy and patience, meets me just the same. He refreshes my soul constantly, through the volunteers who come out and help me in the heat (like Cecilia Gregg who was by pruning tomatoes for 3 hours this morning or Sarah West who was tackling weeds with me yesterday). But he also has been refreshing my body through our produce. I realized the other day that God specifically gives us the watery, juiciest fruit in the summertime, when our body needs it most: tomatoes, cucumbers, melons... They are medicine to our souls as well as nourishment to our bodies. I'll often grab a cold cuc out of the igloo (our refrigerated trailer) and just munch on it whole during a hot day. It reminds me of God's specific and knowing care. Thank goodness he doesn't just love us when we are patient and clean and put-together. He loves us when we are sweaty, grumpy and thoroughly unlovable.
Love, Lena
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Our fresh breath of agrarian theology/poetry for this month is this fabulous podcast with the Christian agrarian philosopher, poet, and author Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis, professor of Biblical theology at Duke Divinity School (one of my favorite agrarian theologians).
Episode Description: How we see the world is how we value it, says Ellen Davis. And poetry is a way to rediscover the lost art of being creatures. An hour of learning and slowing down, with the “Mad Farmer” poems of Wendell Berry and a new way to take in the “poetry” of Genesis.
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Farm Open Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat from 7am-1pm
Farm Stand/CSA Pick-up Hours: 11:30-1pm
If you plan to come to the farm, to visit, help or harvest, please contact Lena at (336)317-8870.
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