Finally done. My season at the UCSC Farm and Garden is Finished. Finito. Finality.
To paraphrase Orin Martin, who paraphrased someone writing about baseball- a poem for the end...
It's about waking up to the sunrise over the Monterey Bay,
It's about walking in to fresh cooked breakfast, groggy eyed farmers, hot tea,
It's about biking up the big hill to the Chadwick garden, past the students, overlooking the sea,
It's about double digging, and weeding, pruning, and propagation,
It's about farming,
It's about gardening,
It's about the field, and production, about feeding people,
It's about classes taught outside, under trees, in the dirt,
It's about learning,
It's about people come together, from far flung corners, to share,
It's about sharing space, and stories, and seeds,
It's about friendship,
It's about more than any pamphlet or extension credit, or letter home could tell,
It's about six months of magic and synergy,
It's about more than blog posts will explain,
and in the rallying cry of Orin--
Terra Pretta! Terra Pretta! Terra Pretta! Earth First! Earth First! Earth First!
(and we with that- we beat their swords to plowshares)
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