Creating a Rainforest in Our Guts: Fall Share #3 – 11/9/22
Creating a Rainforest in Our Guts The other day I listened to a Radiolab podcast about our guts. And well I just can’t stop thinking about what I learned. In our bodies we contain an [...]
Sipping the Fall Sun: Fall Veggie Share #2 – Wed. 11/2
For weeks now I’ve been bracing for the cold weather… that hasn’t come. These falls days are absolutely divine. I often tell my crews that the sunny afternoons in the fall are [...]
Transition as the Constant: Fall Veggie Share #1 – Wed. 10/26
Each fall the transition is a little different from the busy summer season into the more mellow fall season. Most years there is a steady transition beginning in October of full time workers who [...]
Sorry. Not Sorry. Veggie Share Week #20 – 10/19/22
Two Part Dispatch: 1) Sorry. Not Sorry. 2) A Big Thank You Sorry. Not Sorry. On a hike this weekend I ate a simple salad my partner whipped up for lunch. It had chopped fresh parsley, green bell [...]
Thanks! AND Call to Support the Farm to Foodbank Program: Veggie Share Week #19 – 10/12/22
Two Part Dispatch: 1)The Farm to Foodbank Program 2) A Big Thank You The Farm To Foodbank Program Call to Action: Encourage Your Dane County Supervisor to Support this Awesome Program! Covid-19 [...]
Photos from Painting Cooler W: Veggie Share Week # 18, Wed. 10/5/22
Last season we acquired a refrigerated truck trailer that we converted to a walk-in cooler. We call it cooler W, as it sits on the west side on our packshed. (creative, right?) We use it as a [...]
A Poem – Fall Garden: Veggie Share Week #17, Wed. 9/28/22
The concept of a life sacrificed to sustain and nourish the bodies of my family has always felt deeply spiritual to me. Whether it’s the vegetables we take from the stem or the meat we [...]
Crew Member Shout Outs: Veggie Share Week #16 – Wed. Sept. 21st
Tomorrow night is our annual crew meal at Sardine Restaurant in Madison. We will all get dressed up and the farm will treat the crew to a fancy, locally sourced meal as we celebrate the season [...]
When the Gradual Feels Sudden: Veggie Share #15 – 9/14/22
I know it’s gradual. Just like I know my kids growing up is gradual. Yet sometimes I feel struck by a change that feels sudden. This time of year is the going back to school time, the [...]
Potato Reflections from a Member: Veggie Share Week #14 – Wed. 9/7/22
This season we have been staffed pretty well and generally able to stay above water – aka not drown in food we can’t harvest. But potatoes, oh potatoes. These have been the major crop [...]
Back to School on the Farm: Veggie Share Week #13 – 8/31/22
The kids go back to school Thursday. Every year it seems the summer is spread out before us, and then, zip! it’s back to school already. You might think that the kids going back to school [...]
Future Pastors’ Visit: Veggie Share #12 – Wed. 8/24/22
A few months back, a professor reached out asking if they could bring their class to our farm for a visit. The class was a group of divinity students from University of Dubuque Theological [...]
Corn Puns! Week #11 Veggie Share – Wed., Aug. 17
Prepare to cringe a little, but maybe crack a smile too? We just completed another Tuesday morning of corn harvesting. It’s been a difficult year for corn harvesting, as one Saturday night [...]
How I Can Bear to Eat the Animals I Raise – Week #10- 8/10/22
This weekend we butchered the 39 chickens I raise to nourish our family. It is always a difficult, spiritual experience for me. I raise these birds from chick to slaughter. I do this because my [...]
