Fall CSA Newsletter: December 3, 2024 (Week 4)
Happy Thanksgiving!!
If you boycott Thanksgiving, Thank you! We totally understand where you are coming from. If you don’t and you hold space with friends and family at the time, Thank you! This is a special time of year, when things slow down a little with less light each day, and a little more times for cups of tea, and heart to heart conversations. It’s wild how just the little time you take with people sometimes, sharing more about your life experiences, and then in return you can learn and expand your capacity to be more empathetic.
We are grateful that food has brought you to us and that it continues to bring you back. The Thanksgiving table also does the same. We continue to come together for the Thanksgiving meal. The holiday intersections of time bring folks together who aren't always together, and even if always together, life is still fleeting and these are usually memorable elaborate formal meals, often a little different than the rest. For some this holiday will bring families together who are missing a recently deceased loved one, welcoming a newborn, a new inlaw, a new friend. These are special times when we come together to do the ancient essential act of eating together with our tribe or clan. A big part of the thankfulness are the people that make it an event with you.
“THANKFUL & GIVING”. That’s a pretty radical and wonderful title to the gathering. This collaboration of community and family that keeps the small world turning are magical and important. Why, important? Well we all eat every day, but to sit together and eat and be Thankful, feels like we are looking at our essence. We are sharing space and ingesting time and space. As we eat together, we ponder and talk… about… What is on our plate this Thanksgiving? Oftentimes we talk about the ingredients of dishes and how they taste and maybe how we made them differently or if it’s a family recipe, how we got an ingredient from a new source. What is one your noun “plates” this Thanksgiving and what is on your physical, mental and spiritual plates this Thanksgiving?
…A moment of silence…
We hope you all feel held and are in good company for this holiday. If you happen to be alone, know that you are not the only one! Remember all the individual stars are a part of a greater constellation. If you are eating Who Cooks For You Farm produce this holiday know that this food is grown with love and harvested with love, in hopes to fill you with nourishment.
Chris went to Smicksburg this week, and came back with a plastic bag full of knife sheaths he picked up from the harness shop. The Harness Shop is a shop in Smicksburg, 20 minutes away that is Amish owned and run. There is no electricity in this 2 level store. Here we buy many practical farm needs and it’s a tack shop, where they make all manner of saddles etc, belts, anything that can be made out of leather. They make it from scratch here. Chris asked if they had our sheaths that he asked for them to make way back in spring. Yes they were tucked in the corner without a name on them. Found! Now we have brand new leather sheaths for the 2025 harvest! Sweet! Knives stowed away securely is an important thing, and wrapped in a sheath of local homemade leather is all the better. Local and handmade! We hope you all have a delicious handmade meal this Thanksgiving. We hope you feel the love of your company and food, and have a bubbling feeling of champaign in your hearts from the thankfulness and giving that you share together, and let us think of those that don’t have this and make space in our hearts, dreams, and actions so that those who don’t have this peace and bliss may soon also have this in their lives.
Blessings dear friends! We are so thankful for you to have come into our lives and to grow with us!
Your Farmers,
Chris, Aeros and the Who Crew