dirty handed lifestyle

thank you andrew werth for inviting me to this space.

i am new to farming. i am new to fresh, local food. i am new to conscious consumption.

i love trying new things! my seasonal work here on an organic vegetable farm in western north carolina is almost 2 whole months underway and i've learned so very much- first things first, farm life is an encompassing experience. i've had little to no time idle, which is wonderful, but creative projects are piling up... to kick off my aspirations to have an excellent excuse to write (for this blog), i submit a recent piece of revelation:

young farmers

we bend towards the light; ease knees to the loam,

our hands bend over the plant slip into the earth.

i join these rows of long term, these folds and creases of cyclical,

these sustainable skirts blown up by winds of chance and change.

i am keeping an eye on the horizon,

i am pulling out a reason, from under callous and nail,

i am putting my politics where my hands are-