Welcome, and hello from Taiwan
Hello,
If you're receiving this email, you signed up for our 2024 farm share! We can't wait to bring you vegetables. Expect weekly emails when we start packing your veggie boxes in June.
In the meantime, we'll be sending you irregular updates from the offseason. Please don't mark any emails from this account as spam. We'll be using this email address to send you important information throughout the season, including pick-up locations and times.
Pick-Up Locations
So far, we have one confirmed pick-up location for the 2024 season in Beacon Hill. It will be the same Beacon Hill pick-up spot as last year. We're still waiting to get a sense of our member distribution before settling on the rest of our pick-up locations. Of the 29 members who have signed up so far, there are pretty heavy concentrations in Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and Ballard.
Homecoming
I (Steven) am writing from Taiwan, where my parents lived until they immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. I visited frequently when I was a child, seldom in my teens, and twice in my 20s. This trip is my first time back in ten years.
As part of our anti-jet lag regimen, my sister and I went for a stroll near our grandmother's home in Taipei. We spent some time browsing boutique shops at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.
As the sun began to set, we stumbled into a gated community garden, an acre of green in the shadow of skyscrapers. More than two dozen brick-contained vegetable beds, roughly a square meter each, are tended to by neighbors growing Tian Tian staples like gai lan, scallions, and amaranth. The rest of the land serves as an educational farm. A friendly volunteer named Maggie took a break from hand-watering the daikon to give us a tour. We saw rows of sugarcane, taro, and other crops suited to Taiwan's tropical climate. Tomatoes and beans climbed up bamboo trellises. Three claypots filled with soy sauce fermented under a clear plastic tarp. I told Maggie I'd return with gardening gloves. We walked home in the dark.
Thanks for reading. More soon.
Steven
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