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- Ernest’s week with farmers in the mountain provinceBauko is not very easy to get to. It used to take Char or Drei 6 hours by bus to Baguio, then 4 hours by twisting-and-turning bus to jump-off “cliff” side, then a good thirty-minute breathtaking motorcycle ride where you can enjoy the view or contemplate the fullness of your life without a helmet. WithContinue reading “Ernest’s week with farmers in the mountain province”
- tara na! punta tayo?Kamusta, friends? Wanted to share a message from the farms as Ernest is in Bauko sending our farmers our thanks and wonderment. He had just gone to Kabikaan, the barangay often pointed to in the distance, with a gleam in our farmers’ eyes: “Punta tayo?” Pinuntahan nga ni Ernest. Grabe daw, ang layo. There wasContinue reading “tara na! punta tayo?”
- Good Food: A Love Story! Packed with Suspense! Comedy! Fiber!Dear subscribers, We turn 10 this February! Building relationships over a decade—with the farmers and each other, with our food, our community and the earth—we’ve definitely learned a thing or two about love. And while soil, seeds, and equitable food access are not really the topics that send hearts a-flutter (although they do ours), weContinue reading “Good Food: A Love Story! Packed with Suspense! Comedy! Fiber!”
- Has Covid-19 made NY resolutions obsolete…or meaningful?January is about resets. But with Covid dominating 2020, we may be feeling fatigued despite the arrival of a new year. The stresses of this pandemic have yet to end. How to plan when we don’t know what’s ahead? It’s understandable if we don’t have the energy to make resolutions, let alone see them through. Continue reading “Has Covid-19 made NY resolutions obsolete…or meaningful?”
- BLESSINGS & BOUNTY: OUR TOP 21 MEALS OF 2020Dear CSA members, With social distancing, curfews, and restrictions on holiday gatherings, what’s left for us to mark the end of this strange year? Why, year-end lists of course. In the spirit of community and jolly bandwagon-jumping, we thought we’d share with you our top 21 meals of 2020. Family meals are precious to us.Continue reading “BLESSINGS & BOUNTY: OUR TOP 21 MEALS OF 2020”
- And the word of the year is…Dear CSA members, It’s CSA! Just kidding—it’s lockdown. The announcement was made by Collins Dictionary, selecting the word after its usage increased by 6,000% from 2019 to 2020. “Language reflects the world around us” they said, and lockdown “encapsulates the shared experience of billions of people” when the coronavirus pandemic struck, shaping the way weContinue reading “And the word of the year is…”
- Time to Eat, EveryoneDear CSA members, Kamusta na? Suddenly, it’s October. It’s shocking to wrap our head around this and the fact that majority of Filipinos have led their lives practically indoors for seven months now. Pre-lockdown feels like ancient times, and we call it B.C. Before Covid. Many admit they still find the days blurring into eachContinue reading “Time to Eat, Everyone”
- Recipes for lifeDear CSA members, Six months and by all accounts, we have quite a way to go. There’s grief and there’s fatigue of grief. It is no different with us, gratitude notwithstanding. There’s some grace to be received through “these crazy vegetables,” Sandra says. Some education into the life of things resistant to uniformity, to predictability,Continue reading “Recipes for life”
- Turning to one anotherDear CSA members, Here we are, month 5. With a pandemic and rains raging outside, we might as well make ourselves a(t) home, don’t you think? Right after passing the antibody test (yahoo! maybe?), we took a break for the space-clearing to begin within. Sleeping, breathing, time spent with family, tree-watching, cooking (pa rin!)– youContinue reading “Turning to one another”
- Caring for CommunityDear CSA Members, We begin month four of this quarantine. In farmer terms, it’s enough time for a whole cropping to have been sown and harvested such as cabbage, rice, french beans. If there is anything that this pandemic has sown for us, it’s been a hyper-awareness of people’s health and welfare. Are our farmersContinue reading “Caring for Community”
- Doing Things DifferentlyDear friends, It takes three weeks or 21 days to adopt a new habit. Coming out of the 10-week lockdown, considered among if not the strictest and longest in the world, what do we find ourselves doing differently, what are we seeing differently? To be honest, we thought we had a good sense of theContinue reading “Doing Things Differently”
- What Will We Bring To The Table?What do you bring to the table?Read what our team, our partners and subscribers say about realizations during the ECQ.
- Garden Adobo or How to Feed Hope, a RecipeDear friends, How are you doing? Last Monday, we marked the beginning of the third week of the lockdown with a delivery, a minor miracle. As local governments impose their own quarantine rules, expanding and becoming more stringent, the transport of essential goods continues to be a challenge, especially for a small company like oursContinue reading “Garden Adobo or How to Feed Hope, a Recipe”
- Food & Friendship in the Time of COVID-19Dear friends, Yesterday we woke up early with several text messages from our community asking about the farmers we work with and how this lockdown would affect them. We heard from our farmers too, and wondered with them how to bring food to us in the city. While we are still in the middle ofContinue reading “Food & Friendship in the Time of COVID-19”
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