A before and after picture of a party doesn’t always look like this! Some of the weeding crew is pictured below, and thank you all for making a daunting task so enjoyable!

Join us at 9am in the CSA garden for the satisfying task of weeding some of crops we will all enjoy later this season. Many hands make for light, social, and enjoyable work! We’ll be cutting most of the weeds, not pulling them out, so if you have clippers, or a sturdy knife, please bring it. We have some extra but not enough for everyone. However much we get done, we’ll stop at noon for a potluck lunch. If you just want to come for lunch, feel free to bring a dish to share! Please bring your own cutlery and plates.

Soil wants to express itself. It’s the organ for the Earth’s artistry.
Weeds are always an expression of something, as is every plant. Seeds can wait in the soil (sometimes for decades) for the right time, place, and reason to express what the soil desires. Some weeds are medicinals for humans, animals, and soil. They can be trying to bring something that is missing, or balance an excess. Some weeds follow cultivation, and like the fertile soil that we prepare for our crops… that’s mostly what we have.
Most of all the soil wants to cover itself, to be a storehouse of carbon, which holds the potential for the expression of life. The trick is letting the soil express the life of our crops before it feels the need to express the life of the fertility loving weeds.
Weeding, as with so many things, is all about timing. If we catch the weeds when they are young, just sprouting along with our crops, we can direct the expression of the soil with a quick hoeing. Each bed can be hoed in 10 or 15 minutes. If we miss that window, each bed can take 2, 3, 4 hours to weed. This has happened a bit this year, encouraged by the rains. Because of our earliest first harvest day in mid-June, as soon as we finished the planting push, I had to focus on the twice a week harvest and distribution. I lost the crucial window to do the quick and easy hoeing for many of the crops. Getting many hands for the task Saturday will be great to get caught up!
There’s more to this story, but that’s to be shared in the garden!
Hope to see you there,