Hello, friends!
What a year it’s been… and it’s just barely a quarter of the way through. Pedro and I started Oliview Farm, in part, to increase our resilience and connection to the earth, and to build community through food. Now more than ever it seems these values are essential to being human. As keystone species, we have a responsibility to the earth and each other. In good times we encourage and remind each other. In bad times we feed each other.
For this reason we’re opening up our CSA again this year, but with a different approach: the CSA will be pick-up only, on the farm, and you’ll be asked to pay by the weekly pickup, or by the month if you can. The cost for us to produce the share – a grocery bag or two of produce, depending on the season – is about $20: for those who can pay it, we ask that you do so. Eggs and olive oil will be sold as separate additions. A worsening recession means greater struggle for many, however, and no one will be turned away who is in need of food. For those unable to pay, please come anyway.
The economy of the seed is anomalous to the human economy, centered as it is around fear of scarcity. The seed is small, hard, dry. It looks like a piece of dirt, and easily is lost. It appears to have no value. When planted in fertile soil, however, and lovingly tended, it flourishes and produces hundreds – even thousands – of offspring to continue feeding those who collect and save, cultivate and share. The gift of the seed defies scarcity, and celebrates abundance. Human connection and affection is the same way: the love we give and the grace we share comes back to us a hundred-fold.
This year especially, we want to foster the economy of the seed.
Join us in celebrating this economy of abundance: a local economy that reflects the gardener and the neighbor; barter and trade that reflect our shared values and our shared abundance; the security of knowing where your food came from, and understanding the pivotal role you – and that we all – play in the quality of our shared lives.
Love and good health to you and your loved ones!
Elizabeth
