St. Croix Valley Press

Wohoo! The local paper passes it on!
http://www.presspubs.com/articles/2010/04/08/st_croix_valley_press/news/doc4bbe30cf43f17888817155.txt

April

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see" C.S. Lewis

April is here! The green is coming back to the grass, and the hens are happy.

Happy Easter from Little Flower Farm!

“There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began ‘Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.’ This seems to me, for his age, both admirablepoetry and admirable piety. But of course the time will soon come when such a child can no longer effortlessly and spontaneously enjoy that unity. He will become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of Easter; chocolate eggs will no longer seem sacramental. And once he has distinguished he must put one or the other first. If he puts the spiritual first he can still taste something of Easter in the chocolate eggs; if he puts the eggs first they will soon be no more than any other sweetmeat. They will have taken on an independent, and therefore a soon withering, life.” ~C. S. Lewis
"A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles, and cuttlefish." G.K. Chesterton

Update on the Twins

Alot of you have been asking about Salt and Pepper:

They are ambling and chortling and galumphing about! A happier family you never did see!

Farming with G.K. Chesterton

We finished plowing the 2 acre vegetable field with Indy and Dance yesterday.

Next up: laying the mulch and planting out the onions and early cabbages and broccoli. Also the potatoes! The Forsythia is in bloom on the farm. That seems to be our seasonal signal to get ready to put things in the ground!

The ploughman behind a trusty rusty old walking plow (and two shapely horses' rumps) is given to philosophizing...it took three days to finish our field, but in that time we all forged a bond by our shared work, and will never be able to look at that field that same way. Not only do we know our soil, and the lay of the land intimately, we are also now better friends with our neighbors! All from one little plot of soil!

G.K. Chesterton came to mind:

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it." - G.K. Chesterton, Commonwealth, 1933

"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back." - G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World, 1910

"Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1908

St. Paul Drop Site

We have a St. Paul drop site!

We will be delivering shares to Mississippi Market Co-op (West 7th location) on Wednesday afternoons.

Baby Pics

The brassicas are up and running!

Feel free to print out wallet sized photos and pass them around to friends and relatives.

Actually...these babies are now much older...with true leaves and everything. It goes so fast! One minute you are seeding soil blocks, the next, they are asking for the keys to the car!