processing a long absense from the Thursday Farmers' Market. JoanE and Johnny were warm and their CSA for Joe is moving along.

Date:   10/11/2007 10:32:41 PM ( 17 y ago)

8:00 PM
October 11, 2007

I haven't been to the Thursday night FM--
Farmers' Market in months.

I went during the summer decluttering,
but then I was out of town to help my father
recover after a fire. He hoards. It was likely
the only way we would have moved any of the energy
in his apartment. Not a big fire, just enough to alert
the landlord there was a problem, and force my father
to go around the place murmuring, "It has to be done."

IT was a very uncomfortable week up there.
the parking situation off the Miracle Mile
near Wilshire Blvd is hellish, really hellish.

I am not sure I have really recovered from that
experience up there. It seemed to rip the scab
of all the Father-Son healing I have done over the years.
He is 89. He was in rare form, reminescent of the monster
raging behavior that I experienced when I was a kid before
he bailed out and left when I was a teen.

I never made it to the market during that time,
then came the Whole Being Weekend, and then
the Jewish Days of Awe and followup Holidays--
more days out of town.

Today was the first time I was back.

JoanE and Johnny run the market.
They are excited about helping Joe.

JoanE eats mainly raw foods. This is a perfect job.

There has been some involvement with Joe's food
and CSA's run by others, but during the summer
or right before, JoanE and Jonny started to put
energy into organizing a CSA for J.R. Organics.

CSA--that means Community Supported Agriculture.

I have never looked too deeply into it.

JoanE reminds me that each person has a share.
They pay 12 weeks in advance for 12 boxes that the
member picks up every week or every other week.

JoanE had built the J.R. Organic CSA up to 30 members now.
Johnny is good with a math. He tells me that if they had 300
paid members, that would take a lot of pressure off the farm.

They would have a kitty for buying seeds and materials.
It is a way that members can really support the farmer.

The Farmers' Market on the other hand leaves a lot to
chance. There are regular customers, but the farmer often
goes home with lots of extra food that does not sell.

JoanE has been putting out a newsletter that goes into the boxes.
There is also a list of the foods for the week.

This was the first newsletter I have seen. It is the fourth issue.

The newsletter is expensive to produce and time consuming.
JoanE has been using a PC and a program called Word Publishing,
I believe that is the name.

She has been running off copies on Johnny's computer
and using up the ink. She is concerned about using up the printer
itself with all that wear and tear.

She is exploring having it printed at Staples. It will cost 49 cents each.
There used a few of my pictures in the newsletter, taken off a disk
I gave Joe.

There are technical difficulties. JoanE cannot print a photo other
that one that is very tiny. I am not sure what the issue is.
She said she was not able to open the other photos.

She asked if I would write some stories. She is writing everything.

I was hesitant to commit. My head is in a fog with a lot of emotions
coming up about doing the Pacific Symposium.

I body is calling out for attention. I am still depleted physically,
and emotionally wrought.

I am doing my best to work through programs on this new Imac.
I do not know why I get various glitches. I havent a clue why Pages,
the word processing program does certain things. I had a crash today
of the whole computer, nothing big, but a sign that ever this new machine
can have problems.

Part of me wants out of Pacific Symposium.
I wrote a positive Whole Foods proposal today
and asked for what I wanted, including a bouquet of flowers
for the main podium.

My confidence is low, after the fact.

I was up during the middle of the night, and did not use my time
wisely. I was checking out the Bioneers and got sucked into a couple
of other Rabbit holes in Cyberland. I am worse than Alice in Wonderland.

Time to chill out.

I did not do the rents today, nor pay off the computer.
I am feeling weary now, but do not want to overeat.
My left hand is holding up.

Tiffany offered me a page to write about how the people at the Conference
could help Joe, and farmers, but when I woke up in the morning, what I wrote
I see now does not reflect really what I might have been written, including
info about the CSA.

I am beating myself up for that writing now, but I am not grounded
with this event, the Pacific Symposium yet.

Morea is committed to help me Thursday morning, as early as necessary.
This is an additional stress. We usually are all set up by Wednesday by 9 PM.

I am not sure if I have the helpers I need all in all. Some of them
can work on Wednesday.

I am not all here. It is Mercury Retrograde, day one. I am fogging out a bit
forgetting to get a receipt for gas, then going in to get one. The machine
was out of paper.

All in all the visit to the FM was good. JoanE and Johnny were cordial
and welcoming. They had open arms for me. I was concerned how they
would feel after my long absense.

JoanE's pressing need is for a website.
She is getting members off a site called

http://www.Localharvest.com.


I have a web site as part of Friend of the Farm,
but did not bring it up. I am overloaded.

___

Follow Up!!
email JoanE to send list again of FM's that
Joe does.
form for joining the CSA.

See if Pages can do a newsletter.
How would I do such a thing?

I told her to write stories about the members.
One is bringing in more.

I would like to promote the CSA at Pacific Symposium '07.



 

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