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We love both writing and reading newsletters that feel real. That is why we always enjoy reading the Love Notes from Soul Fire Farm. Their words always feel rooted in something so tangible and real. Straight from the farm, Leah & Jonah write: 

It is hard to believe we have only been home from Mexico for a month. We arrived to acres covered in waist high weeds and a pile of construction materials ready to be transformed into a barn. In just 4 weeks, my amazing love erected a barn frame and roof, working 13-hour days, every day, so that the participants in last week’s Black and Latino Farmers Immersion would have a dry place to sleep. We prepped and planted the entire farm in that time as well, ¾ in cover crop and ¼ in food, and made arrangements for the whole season of educational programming. Leah’s 13-hour days made that happen plus immense support from volunteers at our 2 community work days. All of this focus and sweat happened while staying close, connected, and loving as a family and with relatively low stress. Growing!

The farm is exhaling after creating sacred community with 25 Black and Latino aspiring farmers for a week-long immersion experience in sustainable farming, cultural whole foods cooking, food justice, and dismantling racism, tied together with the thread of REVOLUTIONARY LOVE! We planted potatoes, prepped beds, built compost bins, cared for chickens - then took their life to feed self and others -  transplanted fragile seedlings, pruned and trellised tomatoes, prepared 500 plates of nourishing food… all while singing the songs of our ancestors, dancing the dances of our hearts, indulging the fullness of silence.

With immense gratitude, we have put every dollar donated by our community toward the frame and roof of the barn. We have 10 days left in our public crowd funding campaign and need to keep up the momentum so we can finish the infrastructure - windows, insulation, plumbing, electric, kitchen, bath, heat, and packing/distribution area. If you have been waiting to support, the time is now. Please reach out to people whom you love and let them know what Soul Fire means to you. We need to make it happen from the grassroots.

I am grateful for having the courage to take ALL that is sacred to me - my connection to land, knowledge of farming, love of my family, relationship to Spirit, commitment to justice, sacred bond with peoplehood, freedom in dance and song, comfort in stillness, skills in the whole kitchen, and heart smile - and share it with the chosen family that came to this land. I notice that what we have created means a lot to people, and it's good, real good.