After a mild and very welcome break, we’re dusting off our boots and buckets and heading out for our first harvest of the year! We’re catching up on (ok, lagging behind on) quite a bit of correspondence, and I know that I still have a handful of invoice requests to make my way through as we get started with our ten week Winter CSA season…not to mention the 38 weeks that will follow! Our Winter hours will begin tomorrow, and we’re looking forward to welcoming folks back with a hefty harvest of Purple Sprouting Broccoli—yes, in January.

What a beautiful, heart-wrenching, purposeful, beyond difficult but delicious life those two kids ended up building together.

Thomas Edison famously stated that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, but according to your humble farmer Katie Green, sometimes inspiration arises from equal parts perspiration, digestion and reflection.  Mark and I have spent a whole lot of time in the kitchen together over the past five days–so many dishes prepared, so many dishes consumed, so much getting in one another’s way and soooooooo many dishes washed.  It is all part of what makes us and this place tick. Stacks and stacks of alluring seed catalogues are piling up nice and high at our desks just as the days are becoming short as can be, and the hours we spend walking among our planted rows in the field are about to give way to time spent filling in columns on spreadsheets as we get ready for 2025 in earnest.