This week brought the heat!
We’ve been short-handed, which meant longer days and a lot of shuffling just to keep things moving. There isn’t much cushion when someone leaves, and everyone else feels it right away — except the kids who still manage to bring smiles to everyone with backwards helmets, shorts and rainboots, and bike shenanigans.
At the same time, this has been a very slow spring. We’re hearing it from all directions and seeing it up close. Beloved local businesses are closing, and we’re feeling some of that same pressure here, too. It’s hard not to notice the broader strain people are under right now, and how that trickles down into every kind of small business, including farms.
One of the hardest questions for farmers in a season like this is how prepared to stay for our community? How much food do we keep growing when demand is low, knowing that in a very possible real crisis—war, fuel spikes, supply chain disruptions, or other economic shocks—demand can swing quickly in the other direction? In moments like that, people turn back to their local farmers to help carry some of the weight of regional food security. The trick is staying ready for that responsibility without overextending in the quieter stretches, and it’s painful.
The weather hasn’t done much to make things feel stable. Temperatures in the garden hit 97 degrees two days in a row, and it’s not even officially spring until tomorrow. The intensity of the heat this early leaves us wondering what summer will bring, and how hard we’ll have to work to stay ahead of it.
But there was one very welcome bright spot: our mama pig had her second litter yesterday. Eleven piglets this time, which is a big jump from the six she had in her first round. Farm life has a way of doing that—handing you something difficult and hopeful in the same breath.
This is why farming is often called a lifestyle, not a career. In the middle of economic strain, war on the horizon, and winter days that already feel like the hottest days of summer, it’s often the simplest things that reset our perspective: new life and a harvest of beautiful sugar snap peas for the farm box.
2026-03-19 CSA Newsletter by d2dfarm