Week 6, Summer 2024
We’re about halfway through the summer season, and personally I’ve been finding that there is some really powerful creative energy on the land lately, so I present you this week’s farm journal in poem form:
Welcome to week 6 of the summer season!
A time of farm life we’re finding much more ease in.
Critters are communing and plants are flourishing
We’re building relationships that feel whole and nourishing.
On Friday we harvested a rather queer carrot crew
And welcomed in Shabbat to rest and renew
Over a meal of homemade pizza we sang about joy
And cheerleaders and pirates and lost boys.
Some folks spent Saturday morning painting smiles on faces
And others ventured into woodsy unknown places.
While art and creativity blossomed through the land
From the front stoop came the tunes of the ZA band.
Sunday was characterized by a slow start
As is often the case ‘round these parts.
In the evening under the canopy of ancient oak trees
We found sustenance in homemade black bean patties.
At Monday noon our king Marty came beckoning
So over fruit beauty standards we faced a reckoning.
After work we journeyed to see other contests of beauty and poise
But were met only with a child’s winning Chewbacca noise.
Tuesday found us awash in tears of gratitude
As Zoë unzipped the sus tent to a surprise of immense magnitude.
And over dinner of another legume in patty form
We discussed our allegiances to comrades and corn.
On Wednesday we grappled with pests that turn our plants to scum
And were chained in the grips of trellising Stockholm Syndrome.
Post-work we found ourselves at the Silo Pub and Eatery
And enjoyed a meal of green tomato soup/curry.
On Thursday morning the bees got to scheming
So Acacia got in a tractor bucket and Patricia got memeing
In the evening we danced atop bales of hay
While poison ivy beneath waited for us to fall prey.
Thus was an eventful week of making dreams into reality
Reimagining what midwestern farming might one day be.
But that’s it for this week, since I’m running out of rhymes
We hope you’ll join us next week for a jolly good time!
