A Community of Sharing

We have the best CSA members!  Ari and I really feel like we are part of a community-we share advice, recipes, plants, and good times :)  We love meeting the families and children of our members.  We especially love being fed and have devoured meatballs, eggplant Parmesan, stuffed zucchini, tomato and eggplant gratin, chocolate cake, and look forward to the red sauce and fish that awaits us in the freezer.  Yes, it is like having a surrogate Italian mama, a culinary fairy godmother.  Thanks Gail!   Our flower garden has been enriched with bee balm, Veronica, and irises from the Horns who also generously share their recipes and successes with our veggies (hello collard chips! i love you <3).  I am so excited about this.  A flower garden, to me, is more than a beautiful space in one's yard; it's a living storybook, an intertwining of the language of flowers as well as the memories of the flower giver.  Without a doubt, the flowers that have been passed on hold so much more meaning and delight than the one's I've picked up at Home Depot or Ace Hardware.  I love how one plant can be divided and shared and grown lush and divided again to be shared with more people and have a generational effect, leaving the original plant no less glorious than it was before it was paid forward.   More so, though, we have formed friendships, based in the belief of the importance of organically-grown, local veggies and pastured, happy chickens and their eggs.  Because of this little venture, which is more than a business to Ari and I, we have met some truly incredible people whom we may have otherwise never had the opportunity to.  And that is what makes this so really very special :)