Brief today, as it’s Friday and I’m tired. But yesterday I received the best news I’ve had in a while. Our farmer will have a fall CSA season. This is good news on several notes. Of course, we will enjoy having fresh, local, organic greens and vegetables until early winter. His arugula is the best I’ve ever had, and was, in fact, the reason I first reached out to him to inquire about the CSA.
But more important, the farmer who runs our CSA on his one-acre farm, just a few miles from our house, is doing well! (An exclamation point–this must be serious.) He has undergone more than four months of chemotherapy this year, and was not able to do his usual spring planting and begin the CSA earlier in the season. To hear now that things are going well at the moment and that there will be a fall harvest is simply a joy. Did I mention that he is in his early eighties?
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