Year of the Ox

Happy Chinese New Year!
We are feeling so blessed by your enthusiasm and support we have already received this winter in the Year of the Ox! Thank you for having us in your life, listening to us, being a big part of our work towards mutuality, becoming better farmers, and redistributive justice. We've been keeping silent but have all been busy crop planning, shoveling snow, feeling anxious, strategizing for the upcoming season and future funding, planting spinach, volunteering with our mutual-aid partners, and facing so many questions that are no longer abstractions.
We are guided by these inquiries: Can farming be a means for change, but first can it be work that preserves us rather than destroys us? What is the most effective means to building a strong soil microbial community allowing for a higher nutrient value in our food while increasing our soil's ability to store carbon? How do we move towards a multiracial-led food system? What is dying, living, and has yet to bloom during a time when dominance is increasingly understood as destructive?
We farm as a way to think through these questions, to transform and become more human, engage with community, and to expand our imagination for what we want to see more of- a worldview in which Earth is not just an extractable resource, food and essential needs are not commodities, and partnership replaces exploitation.
Recently we have partnered with Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Varanam, a Buddhist temple in Elmhurst, Queens. In collaboration with Min, the 607 CSA, Millicent Souris, and Bread and Life, and temple-goers, we distributed 100 bags of honey, rice, cabbage, beets, daikon, apples, and Lucky Dog potatoes and squash for Chinese New Year. Min, the temple community, and the monks welcomed us for service, fed us home-cooked meals, taught us how to meditate, and shared with us Buddhist rituals. We are so grateful to them for reminding us that the spiritual way of knowing is the way to acknowledge our interconnectivity to each other, our environment, and our ancestors. We look forward to the lessons we will learn from each other as we continue to work together!

We will be spamming you soon about our upcoming Instagram art raffle, spring plant sale, a fundraiser at Dandy Wine & Spirits, Danny take-out meal at Brushland, and joining us for Lu Biltucci's online music event on March 7th! Thank you again for being a part of us and big thank you to Chicory Creek for their support!!

Please continue to  donate. Any small amount helps! We are at $25,000 of our $100,000 goal thanks to you!! 

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