Note from the Founder

I’m really not quite sure how I got to be so lucky. Working at a place where every single day I get to watch the changing seasons – not just in the colors of leaves or the blooms of flowers, but in the foods planted and harvested from fields; where I get to brainstorm, plan, evaluate, and troubleshoot with such conscientious, creative, resourceful, FUN and innovative folks on a daily basis; where second graders, middle schoolers, and even college students get their first taste of a just-picked vegetable and like it; where the community at large is welcomed for free yoga and free educational tours and can find the freshest produce around at our farmstand; where teachers take busloads of students for enrichment to their classroom curriculum and see them soak up new information like a sponge.

This is what it’s like at the EarthDance Organic Farm School in Ferguson. After six and a half years, I’m still surprised that I get to be in this place, working on issues so sacred to me: food and youth empowerment and education and community-building and sustaining the earth. As I’ve recently struggled to discern what my role can or should be in the current Ferguson challenges, I have to remind myself that what we are doing on a daily basis is an important piece of the puzzle. This is what the work of peace and justice looks like; what affects one of us, affects all of us.

I am so grateful to each of you who support this work, in whatever way you can – with words of wisdom, with your prayers and blessings, with your sweat, or with your pocketbooks.  Your presence at this year’s Farmers Formal (next Saturday, November 8th) would mean a lot to all of us at EarthDance, as we strive to make this fundraiser our most successful yet. If you’re unable to make it, a new option this year is to bid on our silent auction items from wherever you are, with our mobile bidding system! Be sure to check out the online catalog; this year’s auction donors are a stand-out crowd!

Many thanks, many blessings, and many chapters still ahead.

From A Farm In Ferguson,