Crop list: Cosmic Mix, Dill, Bok Choy, Garlic Curls, Buttercrunch Head Lettuce, Pea Shoots, Sorrel, Lemon Basil and Maybe Radish or Spinach
I was dating a man who did not want to deal with "our relationship". He explained to me it was OK because he really just preferred to "stick his head in the sand". To which I replied "it won't work. I'm good with a shovel."
​Most of the time I choose to not listen to news. It depresses me. I loose sleep over it. I am sensitive and I hurt when others hurt. It really is easier to choose not hurting. Now I'm the one who chooses the sand, or soil considering my profession! Things are easier on the farm, even when they are hard. The purpose is so clear. We want to grow the best food possible for people who live in the Tetons. Every choice we make comes back to that last statement. But I still hear the news. I still feel the heartbreak and the social injustice people suffer. I want to go to all these people and comfort them and feed them and fix things for them and rage against the powers that be. It hurts so much, I can't. No one can. I know in my bones my calling is the farm. I know that is how I can make the world a better place. But there is more, and it involves you.
Our favorite quote by Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Biodynamic agriculture, is:
 
"So long as one feeds on food from unhealthy soil, the spirit will lack the stamina to free itself from the prison of the body."

We want to create positive change in this world. We want you to have the stamina to make our world better, while we keep our heads down and grow food! Maybe you help a non-profit, maybe you change diapers, maybe you work for a restaurant, we are all in this together and together we can make the world better. We can all be kinder to each other. And we don't really have to look outside our own bubble to do it. That is what I want this food to do for you.

I want every cell of this food to improve your life and our world.

Every thing we do on the farm is done with the best intentions for the Earth and humanity. We hope you can taste that in the vegetables. From the ground up, change will come, we've heard that before right?! We treat our soil as a living breathing being. We know your veggies will not be as good if the soil is not revered. It is the base, we are all rooted in it, all of us who are eating Cosmic Apple veggies. It is where change begins, from the ground up. I can do it, I can keep my head out of world news and make the world better. I can live in this world and change it without needing to understand or even hear about all that needs changing. I will tend to the soil. It is all I really know how to do, and it makes me happy.
Use the energy from this food to create the change you have been thinking of. Use the energy from this food to put your head down and work on yourself. Use the energy from this food to go out in the world and help someone. Use the energy from this food to celebrate all that is good in the world!!

​Beef Available! 
Check the coolers at your site. I attached a list of prices and cuts to your email. If you know you want something, please email me and I will send it over for you. You can also tell your site hosts you have a request and I will send it the next week. We purchased 2 cows from Lifeline. They are packaged with our label because we brought them to the butcher live and for us to sell them they needed a label...and well, we are Cosmic Apple! It is really just the legalities of selling USDA inspected meat. More info then you need, but we want to be completely honest about what we have!

Find recipes for this weeks share here: www.cosmicapple.com/recipes.html
Bring Bags to pick-ups!
Wash Your veggies!
If you can't make it to pick up your veggies, send a friend!
Missed shares are forfeited for the week. 
Members get 20% off at the Farmer's Markets!
The Driggs Market is Fridays 9-1. The People's Market is Wednesdays 4-7.
Jackson Satuday markets start 7/9.

Crop list: Cosmic Mix, Kale, Roxy Head Lettuce, Black Summer Bok Choy, Spinach, Basil, Garlic Scapes and Maybe Radish, Arugula or Cilantro

Summer!! Monday was the Solstice. The longest day and shortest night of the year. It feels like it. 16 hours and 38 minutes of daylight in Victor! The energy of the farm shifted between Friday and Sunday afternoon. I spend a lot of the spring barefoot. The grass is tender, the soil cool and moist. My feet finally free after a winter in boots! I could walk just about anywhere barefoot, chasing the puppy down the block, checking on a child at the other end of the greenhouses, it felt good to be truly connected to the Earth.
Sunday afternoon we headed out as a family to the farm for a Father's Day/Solstice hike. My son asked me to come check on his garden. As I walked over I noticed the thistles had all of a sudden become thistle-ly! The tender spring babies were gone. On the way back to the kitchen I stepped on a bee. Oh little bee...I'm sorry! The recently mowed grass was pokey, and the soil in the garlic was hard and clumpy! My feet suddenly remembered how summer feels!
The people's energy changed too! On Monday morning the employees felt the first taste of summer chaos! Jed was tying to load the pigs in the trailer and there is always one who (wisely) does not want to go! After he rounded up 4 helpers and did some creative plywood wrangling Jed was off! Scott our "vegetable caretaker" was now behind schedule in the wash station and Noah the "workshare manager" had a LONG list of weeds to remove! Noah said it was his first day of work that felt a bit stressful in the month and a half he has been leading the crews. 
It seems as though the full fire of summer is calling us all. Our energy is at it's peak. We have been pulled out into the sunshine, we have planted what we want to harvest for the year and now we must keep tending it as the fire wanes. Nothing lasts forever, the light, the dark, weeds, tasty spring greens. The passing of the Solstice begins the slow shift of light to dark. 
There is a settling feeling to the Solstice, we have adjusted to the summer pace, our employees are trained and are learning their routines. The anticipation of sun on my skin and bare feet has passed! The garden is planted. We are done racing spring storms and wet soil to plant. Now we wait for the garden to tell us what to harvest!

Beef Available! 
Check the coolers at your site. I attached a list of prices and cuts to your email. If you know you want something, please email me and I will send it over for you. You can also tell your site hosts you have a request and I will send it the next week. We purchased 2 cows from Lifeline. They are packaged with our label because we brought them to the butcher live and for us to sell them they needed a label...and well, we are Cosmic Apple! It is really just the legalities of selling USDA inspected meat. More info then you need, but we want to be completely honest about what we have!

Find recipes for this weeks share here: www.cosmicapple.com/recipes.html
Bring Bags to pick-ups!
Wash Your veggies!
If you can't make it to pick up your veggies, send a friend!
Missed shares are forfeited for the week. 
Members get 20% off at the Farmer's Markets!
The Driggs Market is Fridays 9-1. The People's Market is Wednesdays 4-7.
Jackson Satuday markets start 7/9.