Spring 2025 Updates and Musings
Dear Friends of Foxtail,
I'm sure I don't need to express to ya'll just how troubling things are in our world right now, but....WOW.
It's hard to comprehend everything that has happened since January's inauguration. I think at times I feel completely defeated and other times the fighter in me is all amped up and ready for action. I think it's important for us to feel all the feels right now. Ya know?
The defeated person in me is grieving. Grief for those we love whose human rights are being taken away. Grief for those who are losing their jobs, financial support or critical funding. Grief for the hungry and sick whose suffering could be ended by the flick of just a few billionaire's wrists. Grief for our planet and all we do to it in the name of comfort. money and power. The grief is real and needs honored. That grief calcifies in me, becomes fight. My grief teaches me about how precious all the things we CAN do are. How amazing life is when we care for one another. The magic of a seed sprouting in spring...
On the other days it's my fight. My fight is fueled by my hope. This hope is renewed in the evidence I see all around me of people taking care of people, in building connection to the natural world and each other, of voices being raised to fight against injustice. My hope grows when I think of people's smiling faces at the farmers market or how amazing it feels to pack a full CSA box at the end of a week of harvesting. My hope is alive in the land here at Foxtail, and the joy it brings. Being a part of the plants, birds, bugs, goats, chickens, dogs and even rats home is endlessly entertaining.
It is with grace for both sides of this life's coin that I go into this 2025 growing season with a new resolve:
LAND WORK IS MY PROTEST. LAND WORK IS MY CONTRIBUTION TO HELPING BUILD THE WORLD I WISH TO LIVE IN. LAND WORK IS MY GIFT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS. LAND WORK IS MY LEGACY.
Who knows what the future holds. I'd like to believe that collectively we can shift it in the direction where all people are cared for and our basic needs are met. Don't get me wrong, I'm not naive enough to think it will be easy, but why not?!? The alternative causes so much more suffering for so many and ultimately kills or planet.
Why not be a part of the solution? Why not be an instrument of community building?
But HOW?!? It's a re-commitment to the things we already know help communities thrive. We help out those in need when we can, donate time or money to mutual aid efforts in our communities, raise our voices when needed to speak out against injustice, get involved with community organizations, we support local businesses and farms over corporate interests. It's an accumulation of all these little acts that can shift the future.
This growing season we hope you join us in our food growing, land protecting, bug infested, protest. We want to keep centering and building community. We want to keep connecting us all to place through food.
Check out our CSA options, grow a garden of your own with some of our plant starts, come say hello at one of our Farmers Markets! We'd love to hear from you! We've got lots of things planned this season with more details to come (keep your eyes peeled for monthly newsletters). We've got to re-prioritize building community and we want some of that to happen here! on the land!