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Time to sign up for the fall shares and other musings

Posted on August 29th, 2019 by Shiloh Avery

Gah! It's September!  How did this happen? Only 1 more week of the main season harvest share:(  So...if you haven't already, now is the time to sign up for a fall share before we get filled up (we don't grow as much in the fall so we don't have as many shares available and they tend to sell out more quickly).  Let me know if you have credits that you would like to use for a fall share--it won't happen automatically, but I'll magically and manually convert them into your own personal coupon code:)  You can expect an email in the next week with a link to a survey.  Please help us work with Harvie to improve your experience by filling out the survey!  Thanks!

Isn't compost amazing?  I mean, have you ever just gotten up close to a pile of rotting anything and watched?  I mean, Thoreau had something going on (especially the being supported by a wealthy aunt so he could watch bugs thing).  It’s so amazing!  You get a bird’s eye view of an incredibly efficient industry of breaking things down.  Everyone filling a roll in the big picture, completely unaware (I assume) of how their little part ties in with the other little parts to form the system that returns waste to nature.

I can’t help but assume we’re the same way.  Just plugging along here doing our little farming thing, contributing to a whole that we don’t fully understand.  We fill a little tiny niche in our community, which fills a tiny niche in the world, which fills a tiny niche in the universe, and so on.  I don’t need to understand the whole picture to feel comfortable filling my little niche in my little community.  I’m perfectly content to know I’m a part of your world and you’re a part of mine, and that we somehow fit into a larger picture.