This is starting to be the season when people are going to check old links and search for names and come looking right here for a CSA, which we won't be running this year. That, plus the fact that some time has passed, seemed to make it the appropriate moment to reflect (for me at least) on the decision to not have Open Heart Farm this year.
I've got mixed emotions about it:
1) (and it's number one for a reason) The land I was on in the Intervale was marginal, and the option to move the whole thing to truly unmarginal land wasn't really there. A few Side points here: the soil quality down there is excellent. b) as little as five to six hundred yards away as the crow flies are farms that have significantly different circumstances. I can understand why they would stay. Maybe they only lost 25% or less during the actual flooding of what was there at that time. you replant as quick as you can, bet on a long fall and you maybe have done just fine. Besides which people on bad soil probably lost 25% of their stuff just to rot in that clay soil, whereas had we dodged the flood we would have been slow, but lost nothing.
brings us to
2) I didn't want to move to a space where I would be choosing seeds (today probably had I been doing it) and I could have no excitement, just worry. I know there is always chances and always weather, but being so close to that river's edge is avoidable, everyone else who is staying in the intervale is further. All they really need is 4 inches less rain in May and then again in June and they are probably golden. Even if that happens my fields still would have had loss and thats the difference.
3) so that's where i am now on that. working at a job i still don't think it's too wise to name online cause there must be things ive signed that said i won't, kinda looking for land where one and two don't have to occupy as much space in my brain as the joy of farming would normally.
now that I do have that job for which i am actually quite grateful i don't have quite the time to ruminate via typing on pet sounds box set that i want but we can always say maybe that is for the best . . .
I've got mixed emotions about it:
1) (and it's number one for a reason) The land I was on in the Intervale was marginal, and the option to move the whole thing to truly unmarginal land wasn't really there. A few Side points here: the soil quality down there is excellent. b) as little as five to six hundred yards away as the crow flies are farms that have significantly different circumstances. I can understand why they would stay. Maybe they only lost 25% or less during the actual flooding of what was there at that time. you replant as quick as you can, bet on a long fall and you maybe have done just fine. Besides which people on bad soil probably lost 25% of their stuff just to rot in that clay soil, whereas had we dodged the flood we would have been slow, but lost nothing.
brings us to
2) I didn't want to move to a space where I would be choosing seeds (today probably had I been doing it) and I could have no excitement, just worry. I know there is always chances and always weather, but being so close to that river's edge is avoidable, everyone else who is staying in the intervale is further. All they really need is 4 inches less rain in May and then again in June and they are probably golden. Even if that happens my fields still would have had loss and thats the difference.
3) so that's where i am now on that. working at a job i still don't think it's too wise to name online cause there must be things ive signed that said i won't, kinda looking for land where one and two don't have to occupy as much space in my brain as the joy of farming would normally.
now that I do have that job for which i am actually quite grateful i don't have quite the time to ruminate via typing on pet sounds box set that i want but we can always say maybe that is for the best . . .
posted by Josh May at 2:23 PM
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