GOT YOUR FARMER YET?

 Hannah and I truly love and cherish our CSA members, and we really hope our shareholders think of us in the way people used to think of their tailors, or butchers, or cobblers, or grocers, or blacksmiths. We want to be your farmers.We want to be those people you see every week, who tell you about the food they're growing, how the season is going on the farm, how they've been dealing with the glut of radishes themselves. We want to see your children eat our strawberries and cherry tomatoes and watch them grow from it. We want to produce the things you asked for, and the things you want but didn't ask for, because we know you.It's that relationship we feel has been lost since the market became super, the store became super, and you have to walk around a warehouse-sized grocery for half-an-hour looking for someone who knows where the carrots were grown. (No one does, it turns out). And without that relationship, a whole range of flavor and nutrition is lost in the food. You can't imagine Hannah cultivating around the plants with Further in a sling as you eat your tomatoes. You can't picture me hauling out basket after basket of fresh garlic when you're making your pesto. You can't visit the soil, see the plants, have a beer with the farmers, dig a potato. And you can't tell the supermarket the story of how your daughter, who has "never liked vegetables," requested stuffed squash again for dinner. But you can tell us, and we will laugh, or cry, or give you a high-five or hug and remember it. All of it. Because we are your farmers, and that's not just what we do, but why we do it.-Jesse.