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Food is Love

4/20/2010

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Tempting to leave the entirety of the entry as simply that, because shouldn't it be that simple? But surely you say, it's not...or someone would want to expound on the absoluteness of obesity & food being the love or some other related twist.

But aside from the imbalances and dis-eased aspects of food & such related to it, which is most likely not love, but as a substitute for love, I rather think food is love. Good food. Warm healthy nourishing food. Provisions for the day-sort-of-food. Tea when you need a sit-down sort of love. Care. Compassion. Nutrition. Taste. Warmth or cold. Vitality. Breaking of the bread. Health.

My husband thought this was a silly saying when I first said it to him many years ago. He was off to haul hay on a very cold Wisconsin day...lots of snow, lots of ice. But we'd bought a lot of hay at an auction & the hay needed to be hauled, needed to be had.

So, off he drove with a couple others & I handed him a big jar of our version of quick trail mix -- chocolate chips, raisins, sunflower seeds (if you're lucky), nuts of whatever type we have around. I said, "food is love," as I handed it to him & he reluctantly took it & thought it silly. Likely I included a thermos of tea, but don't remember that part. And then, when they came home, many hours later because of delays with ice & loading, he was so grateful for the trail mix. So glad that it was there because of the cold & the effort of the day...he realized what care that  meant. To be cared for, to care for others in a helpful, positive, good way through food...sustenance, more.

Many many jars of trail mix later & cookies & home-grown, home-made road provisions, field lunches, coffee breaks at the tractor, cold tea in the field, picnics at the end of planting hundreds of yards of potatoes & a growing lifetime of growing good food, it is our quiet understanding that food is love.
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Our radio appearance on "The Joy Factor"

4/13/2010

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Sheila Stratton was so nice to have us on her lovely weekly show "The Joy Factor" a couple of weeks ago. Listen in. Thanks Sheila!

http://clrhrzn.sc112.info/JoyFactorInterviews/JF20Farmers.mp3
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Busy as Bees

4/9/2010

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Despite working loads this time of year, it seems so mundane to US to put on a blog the tasks of the day...more soil mixing, more compost sifting, more seeds planted in the greenhouse, more baby plants potted on into bigger pots...but it isn't mundane to others perhaps. And it is glorious work most of the time. Started hardening off brassicas today (that means cabbages, broccoli, kale & similar) as well as some flowers & lettuces for market/plant sales that we wouldn't mind slowing down a bit.

Today I looked up for a minute and just for a brief moment & couldn't think what to do next. For just a tiny minute. Slowly shifting from autopilot in the greenhouse to a mix of more field and less greenhouse, over the course of the next month or so.

Baby chicks were to have arrived this week and the order got bumped to next week -- which isn't all bad because of the upgrades being made on that chicken house (one of four moveable ones). Getting insulated more completely, with new walls on top of the insulation, among other. A gift of time when we look at the glass half-full.

Now the chicks are supposed to arrive the same day as hogs, who will also get an upgraded hut...a nice A-frame to be retro-fitted to protect them from wind & weather.

So it goes in the farm week. Feels so good to get our hands dirty & have the sun break through the clouds again. We've been eating outside for lunch time...enjoying it before it becomes a default (because we're too rushed to go in) or too busy on harvest days to stop & eat.
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