Week Seven
In the boxes this week: Potatoes, garlic, cucumbers, zucchini, green beans, kale, rainbow chard, basil & in the full shares, eggplant!
My favorite part of having a vegetable garden is the names of the varieties. Here are the four eggplant varieties we planted this year: Snowy, Black Beauty, Listed diGardia, Rosa Bianca.
We have some compelling workshops coming up at the farm's folk school. Visit Buttermilk Falls Folk School & Retreat Center on Facebook for more information. I want to mention two today- Mary Upham's Mama's weekend September 9-11 and Tal Simchoni's biodynamic intro course at the end of September. Being here overnight allows you to bask in the starlight and replenish, connecting with the land in a way that just won't happen through the box alone. Do consider it!
Finally, we've set the date and time for our Fall Equinox-MIchaelmas Festival. October 2 from 4-7 p.m. This celebration of courage as depicted in the legend of Saint Michael and the Dragon is one at which we brew a cauldron of soup over an open fire, press apples, and tell stories to inspire honor. More to come, but please mark your calendars and plan to join us at the farm for the evening.
feminist-o by Molly VanAvery
come laborers, mothers, ladies and others
come to the bright field
near the peeling white barn
bring the growling motor
the sharpened blade
your biceps, yes
we will need all this
the growth is no match
for destruction
or, rather, never fear
the end
crank the brave core
channel the great task
of man
cut the ridiculous weeds down
don’t bother to pull
what is stubborn and rooted
whack the weeds with the thrill
of engines
these days on the tv
man yells
woman solves
meanwhile in the field
one woman
bends her bossom towards ground
looks for the round sun gold
plucks a warm one
machinates salivates
prepares the waiting mouth