{"id":62427,"date":"2022-04-12T07:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62427"},"modified":"2022-04-12T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:21:03","slug":"a-love-letter-to-the-farm-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62427","title":{"rendered":"A Love Letter to the Farm Share"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Love Letter to the Farm Share<\/a><\/h3>\n
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(Source: <\/em>Missoula Grain and Veg Co.<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I attacked my refrigerator in a spring cleaning frenzy the other day, pitching outdated condiments, scraps wrapped in aluminum foil, and salad dressing bottles with less than two tablespoons remaining. I\u2019ll note that I was away from home for a good portion of the winter, so I can\u2019t be held responsible for many of these refrigerator mysteries.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in the pause between when our winter Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share<\/a> ended and the spring one begins, so I made short work of the produce drawers. All that remained were the greenish-black traces of what I believe was once cilantro, along with a shrunken lemon, and bits of feathery, dried carrot tops collected in the corners. The ceremony was complete when I tossed a shriveled, leathery beet into the back yard for the squirrels.<\/p>\n

I scrubbed and polished everything to a shine, and even slid the lever back and forth a couple of times on the crisper drawer, landing on the picture of a head of lettuce, just in case it actually does something.<\/p>\n

This year marks my seventh season as a farm share member of Missoula Grain and Vegetable Co.<\/a> (MGVC), a relationship that began on a street corner on a warm spring evening in 2015.<\/p>\n

It was March 6, and I was downtown for the First Friday art walk, a monthly Missoula event where galleries and local businesses<\/a> host a variety of artists and their work. On the busy corner of Higgins and Broadway, two grinning young men sat at a card table with a few clipboards and several small booklets. They were wearing threadbare t-shirts; whip thin, deeply tanned, and dirty.\u00a0 At least, that was how I described them in my journal entry from that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Love Letter to the Farm Share (Source: Missoula Grain and Veg Co.) I attacked my refrigerator in a spring cleaning frenzy the other day, pitching outdated condiments, scraps wrapped in aluminum foil, and salad dressing bottles with less than two tablespoons remaining. I\u2019ll note that I was away from home for a good portion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32829,32828,8271],"class_list":["post-62427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-farmshare","tag-karla-theilen","tag-strong-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62428,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62427\/revisions\/62428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}