Lost Weekend Farms

French Breakfast radishes are back! Hello Spring!

We’ve been a little quiet on here lately, but we’ve been busy! Been cleaning up from Winter Storm Fern, filling up the greenhouse with seedlings, preparing growing beds both outdoors and in our new high tunnel, and trying to remember that this is our “downtime”. Join us for our 10th CSA season - link for info in our bio.

Local farms lost a friend today. Well, actually, last night, we heard and saw the emergency response and figured it was yet another disturbance at the park at the end of the Bend. This time, though it was the loss of our first friend in Neely’s Bend, someone we’d see at farm conferences and events advocating for food freedom, land access, and justice. Sue Buck encouraged us in our first season of growing food for others, inviting us into sharing her market stall at the . Her vision there along with Joe Willis, was about building community through agriculture, and nurturing local food systems and agrarian ways that are so easily lost. We’d spent many Sundays holding down the front porch of Amqui Station, sharing culinary delights leveraged with her extensive knowledge of cultural foods from around the globe, and being introduced to so many of Madison’s old-timers and characters. It was probably around that time that we realized she and my mom had been besties in grade school, and then that my grandfather and her dad had been childhood friends and later colleagues and in between, had been troublemakers together. Sue turned us onto coddled eggs, Terry Pratchett, the right way to make saag, and that little tip that we’ve shared with so many about fermenting grits, yeah, that came from Sue. When we were working to quit working in offices, Sue was the first person to take this at face value and helped advise and encourage us to keep going. We wish that we had spent more time together and we wish that she knew what an impact she made on us and really so many. We will miss her untamed spirit, storytelling, sarcastic humor, incredible food, and so much more. Rest easy Sue.