Thursday, July 29th 11:26pm

For a while I've been making some great steps towards a direction that I actually agree with. At first I thought that if I want to work on an organic farm and actually survive I'd have to find someone willing to let me stay on their property. That, combined with the idea of "if you're going to move out then move O.U.T." made me want to find someplace far away willing to take me for some food and a little cash. Trying to go to a farm around here had always been ruled out because I was always trying to make sure I would get something out of the situation.

Finally I realized it was more important then that. It's supposed to be about finding the people and getting them together. Not about doing what I enjoy and profiting off of it. So off I went to the farmers market. Numerous times had I been here however never had I thought I would find anything worth the time. How foolish and naive of me. There are only a few people at the farmers market that actually do what you could consider farming though. A lot of people have small gardens or just make food out of their house. That narrows it down to a handful of choices as far as meeting people. It's not too difficult to see who's actually serious about organic farming. There's these things called CSA's and here in my town we have one. CSA stands for community supported agriculture. There's subsctiptions for 12 week periods. People pay up front for $30 a week and every Friday they go downtown and pick up a big box of veggies and fruits or whatever the farmers have to offer. It's a bunch of farmers who work together instead of your average joe with a table of tomatoes.

So I started talking to one of these CSA farmers asking if he needed any volunteer help. Long story short, he didn't. But this other man next to him handed me his card and shot me a crazy smile. I called him a few days later and talked to him and his wife. They seemed to know all about the farm crisis and how people can't even save their seeds because patents on GMO foods by companies by Monsanto. These were people I didn't have to inform nor convince. They already knew.

2010