lI find it fitting that Neurodiversity Celebration Week coincides with the Spring Equinox and planned publishing date of this month’s newsletter; for the last couple of years, I’ve been on a journey to learn more about how my brain works. It’s been quite the expedition, and I’m ready to share what I’ve learned. What I’ve …
This pilot year of our farm share was both encouraging and eye-opening, and I wanted to tell you all how it went. Farming at this scale sometimes feels like being crushed between the competing pressures of market price and market share. Not an economist? Me neither, so I’ll explain what I mean by that. The …
If you are a farmer, or if you know a farmer, you probably know that the #1 topic of discussion lately in the ag community has been Measure J, slated to be voted on in November. The measure’s proponents claim that it aims to help animals, small farms and the environment. Unfortunately the only mechanism …
A 400 Year Journey My family has a long history of homesteading and pioneering in this country that we now call America. My earliest recorded ancestor to immigrate to the New World was Cornelis Van Cleef, born in Holland in 1602 and died in New York in 1686. Not much is known about this first …
Water is our most basic need, and our most important resource. Most environmentalists would agree that water conservation should be a top priority, but most people don’t know about the full array of water conservation strategies that are available. If we think of water as a metaphor for money, we can talk about various water-saving …
You’ve probably heard of a “CSA Share” (Community Supported Agriculture) and maybe even a herd share or meat share. The word “share” in this context is the system by which farmers sell their products directly to the public by making the customers part owners of the garden, flock, or herd. This system is often used …
