Wonderful greetings from Farmer K:
On Saturday eve we held a Farmers’ Convocation. Calliope of Calliope’s Table, Tom of Mall56, Farmer K & Deva of Sunroot Gardens. Among the four of us we have 50 plots around Greater Southeast. Sunroot has 11 $-paying CSA subscribers, with room for 2 more shares (inquire with [...]
I write tonight from an acreage in the country, out past St. Helens, visiting folks who just moved out here from the city. There’s a fire in the wood-burning stove and a cat named Margot sitting near my feet. Sunroot Gardens farmed in these folks’ yard this past season, mostly carrots that were [...]
[NOTE: The following is an email sent to a list of local CSA farmers, in response to a question from another CSA farmer, who asked: "Just wondered if any PACSAC farms had noticed a decrease in prospective CSA share sales or interest as a result of the current economy?"]
Sunroot Gardens has been sold out of [...]
I have been spending time lately with Calliope, of Calliope’s Table, a new urban bike-based CSA here in the City of Roses. In talking about what we’re trying to do as urban farmers in these times of crumbling empire, she used the phrase, “Survival Gardening”.
The word “survival” cuts to the chase; it finds its [...]
* Gardens come and go in the Sunroot network. The plot in longest continuous relationship with me was begun just three years ago this spring, in April of 2006. This is the Cora Garden, and has been called “my favorite”. Mostly medicinals there, though we enjoyed sunchokes from it this winter. From 2007 through the [...]