Welcome To StarWind Farm
We are a small farm in north central Pennsylvania, near Muncy, close to the Endless Mountains, a crow’s quick flight from the Susquehanna River. This all sounds very lovely, and it is, in its own way, but here's the fuller picture: We are a tiny, stubborn outclave, surrounded by highway and GMO cropland. ("Outclave' was meant to be enclave, but now that I see what it means
, I'll leave it. 'Avalanche' isn't a bad way to say what it is that's falling on us all, as the petro-industrial juggernaut goes careening across the earth. After nine years of operating a CSA, Lu and I decided that though it was a marvelous thing in many ways, it left us too little time and energy (not to mention money) to expand our larger mission: "To restore and engender the sense of felt community, among the young and their elders, between neighbors and nations, and with the whole living body of the earth." We work to help people connect the dots between the industrial model of agriculture (and other ways we do business in the world) and personal, public and planetary harm. Through education, community outreach, garden-teaching, on-farm work opportunities, and the growing and sharing of great food, we cultivate the myriad small relationships which form the webbing of community. Lu is designing an exciting summer program for children, drawing together all the threads of her lifelong love of gardens and children, of food and natural wonder. As for me, I am writing the first novel I've ever attempted. Though there are days I'm convinced it's all a load of codswollop, other times I think it might be pretty good.
