UBC Farm in May

UBC Farm Hives in May

A swarm of bees in May
is worth a load of hay.







A Swarm of bees in May
is worth a guinea that very same day.

Another Lilac Moon

Whisper in a lilac's
ear
if you have a message
for the moon.

If
you have haunted
dreams, whisper to the lilac
moon.

If you whisper in the moon's lilac
ear,
you will dream
of your first
home.

If you dream of your first
lilac moon,
go home,
bitterness will disappear.

If you seek forgiveness from
the lilac moon,
whisper
in its yellow ear.

First love,
first memory of love,
loving the loved one's
lilac-shadowed ear.

If you have a message
for the moon,
whisper in a lilac's ear.

LDW

Community Kitchen in May

Our fearless leader, Foodapeg Mom is leaving us with her beau and babbins. Forget us not!
Arilia honey, UBC Farm-canned peaches and mint and pickled carrots.
Greens from SuperGardener.
Muffins for moms.
Cuteness itself.
Wheatberry, apple, walnut, and yogurt salad.
Spot prawns about to go towards the light.
Spot prawns console one another.
Spotted Prawns with butter and chives, served on a bed of zero-mile chard.
Quiche made with cream, organic shitake mushrooms, Farmhouse Cheddar, eggs, and a crust made from Amy's soft wheat pastry flour.

Lilac Moon

Doing Nothing

I am tired. It's a happy exhaustion, born out of the privilege of having a good long string of juicy gigs. Now I'm so worn out I've begun to make mistakes. The worst gaff this week was I lost all the digital photos of CornerFarm. Sigh. Luckily, Loiszing took beautiful photos and wrote a smart summary of the project on her blog.

I've been reading this great book about the healing power of ordinary things. It's by Dr. Larry Dossey. One of chapters is on the power of doing nothing. In our over-achieving, over-caffeinated society we forget about the healing pauses quiet spaces, and silences in our over-scheduled lives. Well, today Ulske is at home, sick. It's a grey, cold day. I have a headache from too much red wine last night at dinner. Have I mentioned I'm exhausted? So we're puttering. We're listening to a fabulous book on tape by Geraldine McCaugherean called Peter Pan in Scarlet read by Tim Curry. It is so brilliantly written that I want a copy of the book for myself. If you have a seven year old, go out and buy it now. What a great story. The old inhabitants of the original story return to Neverland and continue the adventure, with none of that sickly sappy Disneyfication of the tale. It keeps the dark edge that was in the original story.

Have you heard? It's Do Nothing day.

Mo' Pie