My personal solstice wish is to deepen my relationship and awareness of the reciprocal debts I owe to this land and earth that supports me, and to joyfully pay them back and forward.
If gifting is just transactional—I receive a gift so I give a gift—the balance sheet is cleared, then that gesture does not create a healthy future or relationship. It merely keeps us out of someone’s debt.
Due to the broad reaching effects of supply chain issues, increased vendor costs and improved company benefits, I have determined a need to adjust our prices and home delivery fee so that we can continue to deliver the best food we can to you, while supporting our farmers.
“If we want to save the land,
we must save the people who belong to the land.”
—Wendell Berry
Community is not convenient. It calls on us in countless ways to step up, support and serve. It asks that we not assume its inevitability, not assume that it will always be there for us even in the absence of our reciprocity. In our anonymous, transactional economy it is easy to be lured by something more seductive and seemingly effortless, to slip into the mindset of “the customer is always right.” This is not community.
