A wee bit of housekeeping to start the week:

Y’all know I love our Full Diet kiddos. It’s one of my favorite parts of the weekend seeing them romp around the farm. While we love letting them explore, we do need your help with one thing: please remind them to stay off the tractors and other farm equipment when you visit.

Some of our tractors may look like old relics and others like oversized toys, but they’re hardworking pieces of the farm that we rely on every single day. More importantly, they’re not safe places for little climbers.

Thanks for helping us keep everyone safe while also taking good care of the equipment that keeps this farm running. We really appreciate it!

What in the heck does farming in this weather look like?

Well… it looks smoky.

Our views of the Sisters and Smith Rock come and go throughout the day. The crew has been sipping on a tea made with mullein, elecampane, tulsi, marshmallow root, chamomile, elderberry, and mint. They’re drinking more water than they think they need, ducking inside for a few minutes when they can, and then heading back out to cultivate, harvest, weed, wash, and pack.

The vegetables don’t stop growing just because fire season has arrived (although they do notably drop in production because really nothing thrives in the smoke). The animals still need tending. So our team keeps going.

If you’ve ever wondered how to support your farmers this time of year, the answer is wonderfully simple: keep eating. And while you’re picking up your weekly share, bring a friend who’s been meaning to check the farm out.

Every carrot, tomato, bag of arugula, pork chop, and jar of milk represents hours of work from a crew that’s showing up day after day, smoky skies and all (I’m not crying, you’re crying.)