Ladybug Letter

A wonderful CSA in California, with a cool and emblematic story, Mariquita Farm in Watsonville, they have a great website (especially for compare and contrast to New Englandy seasonal capabilities - only so much remay can be utilized to get that arugula popping, certainly)

And, aren't charts great? I like Mariquita's for the seeming absurdity of artichokes in April ?! and cucumbers in November...

well, something to look forward to, what with 60 degress in Vermont in December...

PS. to everyone - STOP IDLING OUTSIDE THE BAGEL SHOP! JUST TURN THE DAMN THING OFF!

But, the above spoken with much love,
Rachel

Backbeat in the Saddle, Already??

And it's not even 2007 yet! I must say I think I am recovering much more quickly than I expected from the tizzy of Open Heart Farm Season 2006.

Although a friend of ours waxed long wonderful and woozy (at a Holiday Party) about how she liked to look at seed catalogs in the bathtub on cold winter days - I couldn't go that far, not even with the Baker Creek or Turtle Tree, and not just because we don't have a bathtub.

BUT! Winter continues to be welcome, the Solstice did seem to be a turning of something and not necessarily a point but a point of view? and farmer me is not weary but merely undone, holing up a bit yes but for a building back of up something involving dipping back into the revolution as is appropriate...we're all willing waiting and wanting to see how it goes...

dad in bloggosphere

this is a shot of the bloggosphere and those are people's avatars - no, actually it is the tunnel of detroits airport, which I once ran through at my personal best mile time to make a flight, and on the way back dilly -dallied as long as I could cause I had a three hour lay-over.
But my Dad really does have a blog, http://freestatefoundation.blogspot.com/
which I will just say in the periodic way I mention blogs that it is out there. I was surprised how much it looked like the Open Heart blog. He does seem to use the linking option a great deal more than I. but as you can see from the address it is essentially a blogspot blog.

On the way to said blog I found freestate org which I was convinced would be my dads site since it had the maryland flag, which is a coat of arms (I think they're still in service to the queen in that state), but it was some other more militaristic think tank, one that wouldn't maybe buy my dad's slogan "because ideas matter" cause they are gonna protect that thing with a hell of a lot more than ideas. Strangely, freestate.org had a job opening in Vergennes, Vermont (not going to ask why in a state so far flung from maryland) . . . perhaps its not to late for me to get in on this Homeland Security thing.