My discernment process as an intern (’10) at the Abundant Table led me to articulate a vocational calling – to ministry that recognizes the value of the soil and of those who work with the soil. At Community Roots Garden, a ministry of the North Oxnard United Methodist Church, I keep my hands in the … Continue reading After the Abundant Table… a year one intern writes back
Roots
I am notorious for getting lost. I get lost even in places I have lived for years, so this last month of being new to these cities has involved my spending lots of times doing U-turns, peering at street signs and making phone calls asking for directions just one more time. The other day when … Continue reading Roots
now
Pulling on baggy work pants and rain boots this evening to take out the trash, I got hit by an extra-strong wave of farm nostalgia.My spaghetti sauce could use some fresh basil, my body could use a few hours of field work, and my spirit misses the company of my four sisterfriends. Having boots on … Continue reading now
what I leave behind
At our big start-of-the-project celebration last August, Julie asked each of us interns to put something on the mantel of the community room as a symbol of our presence on the farm this year. At our closing gathering a few weeks ago we each took those symbols and were asked to replace them with something … Continue reading what I leave behind
the beginning is the end is the beginning
9 days of work and 11 days of living. That is all the time that I have left here in to feel the weight of what I am walking away from, and it is quite difficult to bear. It was not an easy decision to leave this beautiful place, this joyful and supportive community, this … Continue reading the beginning is the end is the beginning
birds of the air
A couple of weeks after moving the Farm I noticed something odd…in the middle of all this farmland, I only rarely saw or heard birds. A few more weeks passed and we were exiled from the Farmhouse for a night while a fumigant called chloropickerin (re-purposed WWI tear gas) was being pumped into the strawberry … Continue reading birds of the air
Abundant Table Farm Historical site 