A Gathering of Gatherings
Sand River News 10.25.24
Greetings Neighbors,
This newsletter will be a gathering of gatherings, with so many opportunities to be together in the coming weeks!
First, we will uplift the soonest event: This Sunday’s frolic will take the shape of a Garlic Planting Party. 2pm-4:30pm. Things you might share:
a warm (non-alcoholic) beverage in an insulated vessel, or something to add water/heat to in our kitchen
Food to pair with soup. Desserts for after.
Kid and adult sized rakes
a simple song to teach, with lyric sheets printed out
biodegradable blessings to bury with the garlic or burn in the fire :}
If plenty of people come, we have plenty of projects up our sleeves, and plenty of food to share.
We will be taking this moment to believe in the spring. To know what hunkers just below our sight as we wait through the dark and the cold. To feel the burning flavors of the bulbs who wait to let out their tender green life, until the Sun invites them.
In Search of a Remedy for Ingratitude — with Adam Wilson and Sam Bliss
This coming Tuesday the 29th at 7pm at the Grange in Whallonsburg (Essex) Adam will speak about the work of neighborly farming and feeding at Sand River alongside his collaborator Sam Bliss of Food Not Bombs Burlington, a group of neighbors who cook and share lunch every day as a gift at the back of a parking garage. Join them for a lively, challenging conversation about money and markets, gifts and gratitude, farming and feeding, culture and economy.
Coming up next month…
Sand River Community Farm Gift Stand Debut
Please join us for our first Downtown Food Distribution, Saturday 11/2 from Noon-3pm at the Keeseville Community Garden. (Between the bank and hardware store, rain location: Ausable Valley Grange)
We will be serving bowls of hot tomato soup and inviting people to take home boxes of our grass-fed beef. Please consider picking up a box to take to a neighbor, or, better yet, cook a pot of stew or chili and invite your neighbor over. This food is offered as a gift to anyone who is hungry for any reason.
Our arms are open. we will receive you and your gifts on the farm this Sunday, and we will gather all our gifts and yours in great big bundles for Essex and Keeseville in the weeks to come. Let us pile like leaves and blow away again, and just as bright!
with lucky sunny warmth,
Annie and Adam
You guys! Dancing charm.
Kx