When to Harvest Garlic (& How to Receive Fruition's Garlic as a Gift!)

and join us for Shakespeare's The Tempest on the farm this Saturday 💛

As we prepare to gift garlic as well as share Shakespeare’s The Tempest on the farm this Saturday…

Can you feel?

The last six thousand years?

Of our ancestors?

Planting garlic, harvesting garlic, savoring garlic…

…singing praises of garlic?

Each bulb, every seed and each of us are a living, breathing embodiment of everything that’s every been and everything that will ever be:

What a fine way to

nourish the world we dream of

as we pause, chop garlic and breathe deeply

knowing growing food

and feeding each other

is a political act of love

honoring the untold generations

whose hope is embodied in each seed

that against all odds

they are here

in our hands.

And Friends, if you’re wondering when to harvest your garlic, you’re not alone: our last 200+ generations of ancestors have co-adapted with garlic, many of them wondering when the ‘perfect moment’ may be to harvest. Let's demystify the moment:

And Friends, join us for

Garlic Harvest

Garlic Gifting

& Shakespeare’s

The Tempest

this Saturday, July 19th!

How fitting to pair our garlic harvest & gifting with a timeless play exploring the nature of power, manipulation, colonialism and the nature of illusion?

Join us for any & all of the delicious festivities:

10 am: Garlic harvest & curing! Come hungry to learn as well as help. Bring a dairy-free offering for our potluck lunch around 1 with such luscious abundance from the farm.

3 pm: Garlic gifting! We’re honored to share garlic both as food and seed for generations yet to come. Receive only what you're able to cure at home. Arrive promptly and plan to stay for our full garlic gifting circle til 4.

4 pm: Farm tour!

4:30: Potluck! (bring a dairy-free dish to pass!)

6 pm: Music!

6:30 pm: The Tempest!

8 pm: Conversation with Director & Cast

We’ll gather in the green field beyond the garlic:

Bring:

~ a chair or blanket to sit on for the performance

~ a bag to bring garlic home in

~ friends & family to make delicious memories with

~ hunger for a more courageously playful and delectable world for all

~ reciprocity curiosity (more below…!)

And Friends, capitalism tells us all this is 'free' since we ask for zero market dollars, but let’s remember

just like black raspberries

ripening in the sun

we know these are gifts

nourishing our hunger to be nourishing

with sublime joy

as well as commitment

to growth, thorns &

common flourishing

Would you love to say

thank you?

And sustain this work and joy alongside us?

In the words of our beloved friend Adam Wilson, we dream of a world than sustains rather than pays us all…

…and in this spirit, we share Fruition’s relational, material & financial non-profit needs and if you’re able to joyfully share financial capacity with Shake on the Lake, thanks for bringing this form of care on Saturday, making their non-profit education mission possible for so many generations to come 💛

Also, if you’d love to help source & write grants to help bring such gifts to our wide community, don’t be shy!

What if giving was the new receiving?

What if we couldn’t tell the difference?

What if you trusted your presence in our lives was simply enough?

See you soon!

and at twilight the fireflies will join us:

Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,

and the Many Possibilities of Fruition

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What else can we sow now?

So(w) much!

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Thank you to the many marvelous hearts & hands who have already joined us this season!

Work Party: Becoming Good Soil Together

Sunday July 27th as well as all Mondays in July from 10 to 5 pm

Bring your family and friends as we dig into meaningful work on the farm together! We'll share a diversity of activities honoring the many ways we all can learn, laugh and be of service together. Rain or shine, arrive / depart anytime and come ready to be comfortable in changing weather. Bring a dairy-free potluck lunch offering as well as a bag to bring home abundance from the farm 💛

If you're reasonably regional and would love to receive lil text invitations to (un)official work parties and abundance sharing here on the farm, send a sweet ask of an email to petra (at) fruitionseeds.com with your phone number. See you soon!

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If you’ve been forwarded this email and would love to subscribe, please do and hope to see you here on the farm one day, too!

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Poetry forever and rest in power, Andrea Gibson:

a doctor once told me

i feel too much

i said, so does god

that’s why you can see

the grand canyon from space