What’s in your box!
Thank you for supporting sustainable community agriculture. By purchasing a weekly box of produce direct from Blessed Stork Farms, you allow us to run our business using earth-friendly methods and bring nutritious produce to your body, mind and soul.
Here’s some notes on what you’ll find in your Blessed Stork Farms box this week:
• Summer is in golden wane, which would normally mean lots of yummy asparagus! Mixed news this week, though, as some tenacious Root Weevils got into our mulch beds. Field Manager Bohdi says he’ll have it sorted out by early May. So: no asparagus this time around, but we’re substituting a pod of wonderful Caribbean Salt-Cock Corn. It’s a small, dry, hard seed that is absolutely scrumptious fried up in butter with some fiddlehead ferns and tossed with quinoa (be sure to hammer the seeds first)!
•Coyotes came down hard on our apple saplings this summer, so apple lovers will have to rejoice later in the season ;-). (Fingers crossed Bohdi remembers to put up the coyote fence next year! LOL. JK, We all make mistakes, it’s part of this sometimes-smooth-sometimes-bouncy journey we’re all on together, a.k.a life). What you’ll find instead in your box this week instead of apples is a bushel of Jaundice Squash Hair, which some native peoples considered a spiritual/menstrual food. (Note to wheat-allergy folks and men: do not handle the box, as the squash hair is a gluten bomb and a hormonal toxin, believe it or not!)
•Those of you who attended the Solstice Rave at the farm know what a magical experience that was to dance all night with the rhythm of the earth and moon. Ironically, having so many people packed into the North Field for the rave “killed the beets,” literally, so no beets in your box this week. Thanks to many of you who wrote to say how much you enjoyed the impromptu hula-hoop clinic put on that night by our own “Office/Admin Goddess” Seashawna (and, I’m told, “ably assisted” by Bodhi). I could not make it due to a homeopathy-resistant panic attack. Everything happens for a reason!
•If you keep up with our blog, you know that Carlos has a magic touch with our broccoli patch. Semi- bad news this week, as Bodhi called Carlos a “#u@&!n *@&*r” (even though Carlos is Cuban!) and Bodhi has been placed on administrative leave. Carlos has since been AWOL (understandably!) but took the keys to the organic root-powder that keeps the Poison Dwarf Beetles away, so we wanted to play it safe and not put any broccoli in your boxes! Bummers come in twos, they say, and sure enough Seashawna will no longer be manning the phones, as she and I are taking some “non-optional” time apart due to her being in Saturn Return and having an interest in eating meat and meeting other meat eaters and/or guys with a “better energy.”
• Aloha to Seashawna, who — let’s just put this on the table — got off to a quick start on the newest phase of her journey with our own (ex-) Field Manager, Bodhi. They have apparently bought a commercial beef ranch in Lodi! Good for them, but less so for all ya’ll in the Blessed Stork Community, as the newlyweds helped themselves to a WTF?-sized amount of green onions that were supposed to go in your boxes. Sorry to disappoint all you onion lovers, but it’s turned out to be a blessing in disguise: Yours truly went on a spirit quest and found his totem animal – it’s the Sluice Raven, whose dung can be made into gumballs. Have a couple on me! (they’re the black balls in the wax-paper pouches – don’t eat the red parts!). Being alone in the desert without water can help you acknowledge some faults in other people that you were kind of blind to all along!
That’s about all this week from Blessed Stork Farms, friends! Remember: eating local, seasonal food means being creative and keeping your complaints to a minimum, so practice gratitude and send along your recipes.
One last note is that some bottles got smashed near Bodhi’s donga, so pick through your veggies extra-carefully this week in case there are some Heineken shards that slipped through the cracks on our end.
Thank you for supporting community organic agriculture!
Ken Coker
p.s. I will be on sabbatical and “unplugged” through the end of the Mayan calendar. Namaste, and good luck!
