“…And a voice was sounding … As the fog was lifting… Saying this Land was Made for You and Me… Bạn Và Tôi…”
Hoping this post finds you healthy and holding strong, we’re staying flex with Big Gretch, moving our May Mushroom Hunt and Nature Walk to Friday May 29th, a perfect way to bring Michigan’s May 28th homestay to a close, reconnect with nature and ourselves. In the meantime, we’re taking advantage of the warm days and in between thunder storms are prepping our garden for planting. Continuing the previous posts’s conversation on soil health and regenerative organic farming methods, the consensus is a return to ‘the old ways’, efforts of our ancestors that more closely mimicked the movement of nature. Taking from but in turn feeding the soil grows healthy, resilient plants, as well as crops that grow healthy, resilient people. Doing our small part in regenerative agriculture, we’re fond of starters seeing as how we’re starters ourselves, but this year we’re even growing some beets and early season radishes from seed — Cherry Belles and Crimson Giants, Early Wonders and Detroit Dark Reds. All with guidance I like to call ‘The Dirt’ from real local farmers Phil and Jeff Ryan. the Arugula Kingpins of aptly dubbed Folly Farms.
So we’re planting seeds on several levels, eager to take safe, sound, baby steps forward late this month, and in doing so hope you’ll join us, to feel a bit more apart of rather than apart from, to close out one funky chapter in worldwide well-being. As it turns out, planting seeds is simple, but the growing takes patience and practice. There’s always certain constants to growing seeds — soil, water, sunlight — but most of the fine-tuning depends on the crop, and even the specific variety. Most seed packets provide growing instructions — everything from days to maturity (how many days from planting to harvest) to plant habit (bushy or vining, determinate or indeterminate). But the real operating instructions are imbedded in the seed itself. Each seed is a blueprint for the future — an opportunity to envision and enact the kind of food systems and thus healthier lives we all now wish to create. More soon on our upcoming late Spring and early Summer offerings. Until then, Stay Well.