We are a family of avid gardeners looking to share our passion for delicious vegetables, fruits, and flowers (and flours?) with our friends and neighbors. We believe we are called both to be responsible stewards of our land and providers of healthful produce to our neighbors, so we aim to raise our crops in a way that protects soil, water, wildlife, and our customers. We are excited to transition to commercial market gardening with CSA boxes for 2022!
"Beadbonny" came to us from "Inversnaid", Gerard Manley Hopkins's delightful ode to the Scottish countryside, translating roughly "beautiful with berries" and referring to the mountain-ash or rowan tree.
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fáawn-fróth
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew,
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
"Inversnaid"
Gerard Manley Hopkins