Jared here, reporting from my European tour.  So far I mixed the Fleet Foxes at these two festivals.  I feel like I’ve taken a trip to the moon.  Touring is so vastly different then my usual day to day life on the farm.  I left on Wednesday but before doing so I was able to help harvest the 24 CSA shares that we deliver that day. After a mere two hours of sleep I awoke to harvest beets, turnips, radishes, chard, kale, garlic scapes, cabbages, peas, broccoli, and spinach.  While I harvested all these crops waves of joy and honor came and went.  So far we’ve had three great weeks of harvest for our 36 CSA shares. I think we’ve taken on a massive work load as third year farmers but I’m proud of our farming work and all the new successes we’ve had this year.  Sara was delighted to have the help of one of our CSA members Sue Edwards on Wednesday to help deliver our CSA shares.  Sara went to Silverdale and Sue visited her fellow community members in Bainbridge Island as she got the experience of passing out the CSA shares.  Last year Sue wrote this story about our farm.  Thank you Sue!
So far I’ve received this news via email from Sara about the farm:
(Tea and the St. Carrolls family are CSA members!)
“Tea came over yesterday evening, and she’s awesome! She helped me move the chickens into the row(we built our chicken tractors to fit between our rows so the chickens can help with the weeding!), and we seeded 4 trays of beans. then she asked if she could stay longer and weed! yes! I finished up the drip irrigation and she pulled all the long grass and most of the canadian thistle and nettle from the pea row. she also said she could come back next week yessssss….
the St. Carrolls emailed that they can come by this noonish for a few hrs too. it rained pretty much all night last night and I watered the tomatoes for a smidge over an hr yesterday. all good!”
This news is fantastic, it’s wonderful how you can manage to get the help you need when you simply ask for it.  I love the fact that our CSA members are stepping up to the plate and helping us out in my time away.  When we planned out our first CSA year the Fleet Foxes where scheduled to be making a new album so we thought I’d be home for the entire year, but things change.  This is my second year of farming and touring and every time I come home from being on the road I spend about a week in shock due to all the incredible changes the farm has undergone.  I look forward to that first week back!
A touring note:  I flew into Stuttgart Germany and as the plane was on the decent we flew over one field after another of mixed crops.  I saw a crew of about six harvesting what looked like some type of cabbage.  I have no doubt that my four years of world travel through my audio career has influenced and inspired me to start up a farm with my wife.  I always try to visit the European markets when ever possible.  I can recall memories of markets I saw in Spain, Germany, France, and Belgium .  I’ll never forget the day I stumbled upon this beautiful market in Valencia Spain!
1,300 sellers under one stunning roof.

I hope one day soon I’ll get to take in these sites with Sara.