she's here

the beginning of summer is here.  the road to our farm is becoming over run with wild roses and sunflower shoots.  soon, the greens in the veg box will be replaced with sweet corn, summer squash, cucumbers, melons, beans, and tomatoes.  the cold, rainy, sunless days that stunted the growth and hindered our planting seem to have finally gone away.  it's starting to feel like we are getting a break around here.  our farm stand will open this week.  our august dinner in the field is 1/2 sold.  our july dinner in the field event sold out in a week.  just when i was getting frustrated with the lack of knowledge some local food consumers have, this wonderful article came out. . .found here.
i know, however, that others are not feeling relief.  they are ramping up for the imminent flooding and some are already fighting the flood.  some of those people are our subscribers.  some of the people working to help are our subscribers or parent's of our interns.  one of the things that mike sells is pumps.  pumps are flying off the warehouse shelves and can't be restocked fast enough.
isn't it terribly confusing how this world works sometimes?  how what can benefit some people can destroy others?  life is full of these dichotomies.  i'm not sure if i will ever understand them and i'm not really looking forward having to explain them to my son.  such is life, i suppose.  this week and in the weeks to come i am going to beg of the universe to take care of our community during the floods and the aftermath.  i ask all of you to do the same.