16 March

It's here!  My First issue of Taproot..  There's just something about having something in your hands written by people local to you.  I sat in on the deck, sun warming my face and devoured the entire thing in like 40 mins.  It was some great writing, some of which I didn't really relate to, some of which spoke to me. My Favorite Article was by Stacy Brenner (who lives like five miles from me by the way.) "Healthy Soils, Strong Girls".  Where she compares the raising of her two daughters to growing and managing her farm.  I am aware of the tie between parenting and farming when my hands are in the mix of the days activities, she says.  Knowing when to tend, when to let go, how much to coax is an art that no classroom can teach.  It happens with the passing of the season, learning to yield to the realities of how things grow best.....The legacy of the farmer is in the health of her soil, the legacy of the parent is in raising children who are strong confident and thoughtful....I'm not sure there is another way to learn it except to live it.  Great Stuff.