The area where I live is very rural. Among my neighbors are Dutch families that have been farming the same land for 300 or more years. Although there are not as many farms as there once were, we still have a lot of farm stands that sell local produce in season.
Since I moved here I have really come to base my life on the agricultural calendar. I only eat raspberries in July and tomatoes in August and September. I love waiting until things are locally ripe to eat them. It makes each harvest a celebration.
But even more than the food calendar, I use the rhythms of the earth to inform my personal rhythms. In the winter I try to rest and renew myself. In early spring, when the ground is still covered in snow but the days are clearly getting longer, I think about what I want to grow in my life, and I put out that intention. In the spring and summer I work to try to make those things manifest.
And it often seems that vague ideas that I had in the spring, really come home by about this time of year. The past couple of weeks have been like that for me. I was invited to give a talk at a library. Plans for a slow food dinner are finally coming together. I’ve been invited to give another talk at a business incubator (more about this as soon as the plans are finalized). I’ve been offered offices in three different places in the last week!It feels like a lot of the work that I’ve been doing over the last while, to get Your Yummy Life known and seen, is coming together.
I now want to take time to consolidate these advances, and figure out how to draw the energy into my roots, so that it is solidly a part of myself. And get ready to grow some more in the spring.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been harvesting recently—be it pumpkins or projects.
Since I moved here I have really come to base my life on the agricultural calendar. I only eat raspberries in July and tomatoes in August and September. I love waiting until things are locally ripe to eat them. It makes each harvest a celebration.
But even more than the food calendar, I use the rhythms of the earth to inform my personal rhythms. In the winter I try to rest and renew myself. In early spring, when the ground is still covered in snow but the days are clearly getting longer, I think about what I want to grow in my life, and I put out that intention. In the spring and summer I work to try to make those things manifest.
And it often seems that vague ideas that I had in the spring, really come home by about this time of year. The past couple of weeks have been like that for me. I was invited to give a talk at a library. Plans for a slow food dinner are finally coming together. I’ve been invited to give another talk at a business incubator (more about this as soon as the plans are finalized). I’ve been offered offices in three different places in the last week!It feels like a lot of the work that I’ve been doing over the last while, to get Your Yummy Life known and seen, is coming together.
I now want to take time to consolidate these advances, and figure out how to draw the energy into my roots, so that it is solidly a part of myself. And get ready to grow some more in the spring.
I’d love to hear what you’ve been harvesting recently—be it pumpkins or projects.
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