http://soulfoodfarm.com/blog/2009/09/chin-up/ Raising chickens on pasture in Vacaville, CA Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:17:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://soulfoodfarm.com/blog/2009/09/chin-up/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Karen Schuppert Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:13:20 +0000 http://soulfoodfarm.com/blog/?p=51#comment-30 Dearest SFF, Heartfelt condolences about your tragic news, but how uplifting your spirits and those of so many around you.  I have posted Bonnie's post on Facebook and will attend at least one of the fundraisers to keep your chins up! From an avid egg supporter through Fatted Calf Dearest SFF,
Heartfelt condolences about your tragic news, but how uplifting your spirits and those of so many around you.  I have posted Bonnie’s post on Facebook and will attend at least one of the fundraisers to keep your chins up!
From an avid egg supporter through Fatted Calf

]]> http://soulfoodfarm.com/blog/2009/09/chin-up/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Mark Lipson Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:59:07 +0000 http://soulfoodfarm.com/blog/?p=51#comment-22 Hey Bonnie and Alexis and Soul Fooders, Just catching up to your news and new blog.  It was hard emotionally to read it but great to see how you and your foodshed are rallying.   I hadn't really known about Soul Food except as part of the promising  new wave of community ag startups.  Down here at Molino Creek Farm Collective we are now one full month from the onset of Santa Cruz Mtns.' Lockheed Fire. Sorrowed that you  got damaged. We are less scathed than you guys, and the sweet rain last night started to wash down the ashes that were still everywhere.  Fallen redwood and fir are still smoldering down deep in Molino Creek, right between here and Swanton Berry Farm on the coast.    The forest around the farm burned on 2/3 of our circumference and right up next to several of our homes. That last third marks the southern boundary of the fire.    Thanks to CalFire's amazing response, and other good luck, we lost no structures. There's a big burnt and bulldozed break in one of two fenced perimeters.  Fortunately most of this year's crops are in the other one still intact.  We're harrowed but all safe and no buildings lost. We've been out here for 26 years, knowing this could happen anytime.  It's wierd that it finally did but we are extremely lucky and grateful that we were only singed.  The dryfarm tomatoes are just hitting their main flow and tasting really great. All Organic Smoky Flavor! Witnessing the full spectacle of the coastal redwood forest burning has been an amazing experience.   Wildfire is about the steep slope of entropy, radical transformation of highly organized organic mass into dispersed energy.  El Nino's rains could still wreak a lot more destruction too.   But  more than anything, natural wildfire is also about renewal and regeneration.  That too will be on fast track.   We can only hope to make the most of that power. Glad you are all safe and that Bonnie finally got you blogged up.  Stay careful and get as much rest as you can. Mark L.   Hey Bonnie and Alexis and Soul Fooders,
Just catching up to your news and new blog.  It was hard emotionally to read it but great to see how you and your foodshed are rallying.   I hadn’t really known about Soul Food except as part of the promising  new wave of community ag startups.  Down here at Molino Creek Farm Collective we are now one full month from the onset of Santa Cruz Mtns.’ Lockheed Fire. Sorrowed that you  got damaged. We are less scathed than you guys, and the sweet rain last night started to wash down the ashes that were still everywhere.  Fallen redwood and fir are still smoldering down deep in Molino Creek, right between here and Swanton Berry Farm on the coast.    The forest around the farm burned on 2/3 of our circumference and right up next to several of our homes. That last third marks the southern boundary of the fire.    Thanks to CalFire’s amazing response, and other good luck, we lost no structures. There’s a big burnt and bulldozed break in one of two fenced perimeters.  Fortunately most of this year’s crops are in the other one still intact.  We’re harrowed but all safe and no buildings lost.
We’ve been out here for 26 years, knowing this could happen anytime.  It’s wierd that it finally did but we are extremely lucky and grateful that we were only singed.  The dryfarm tomatoes are just hitting their main flow and tasting really great. All Organic Smoky Flavor!
Witnessing the full spectacle of the coastal redwood forest burning has been an amazing experience.   Wildfire is about the steep slope of entropy, radical transformation of highly organized organic mass into dispersed energy.  El Nino’s rains could still wreak a lot more destruction too.   But  more than anything, natural wildfire is also about renewal and regeneration.  That too will be on fast track.   We can only hope to make the most of that power.
Glad you are all safe and that Bonnie finally got you blogged up.  Stay careful and get as much rest as you can.
Mark L.
 

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