Zephyr Organics

Zephyr Organics Community farm in Gales Creek, OR growing organic vegetables for CSA, farmers markets and wholesale.

The breba figs are wrapping up as the grapes come on. We've been sticky from all the shiro plums. The season of splittin...
08/10/2026

The breba figs are wrapping up as the grapes come on. We've been sticky from all the shiro plums. The season of splitting, dripping fruit brings Marcus Aurelius to mind.

"Like when baking bread-- some of it splits apart. These fissures, in a way, thwart the baker-- but in their own way they stimulate the appetite. Ag*in, like figs, when ripe, gape open..."

οἷον ἄρτου ὀπτωμένου παραρρήγνυταί τινα μέρη· καὶ ταῦτα οὖν τὰ διέχοντα οὕτως καὶ τρόπον τινὰ παρὰ τὸ ἐπάγγελμα τῆς ἀρτοποιίας ἔχοντα ἐπιπρέπει πως καὶ προθυμίαν πρὸς τὴν τροφὴν ἰδίως ἀνακινεῖ. πάλιν τε τὰ σῦκα ὁπότε ὡραιότατά ἐστι, κέχηνε...

Meditations 3.2

Lacewing on elder in our hedgerow. They're an easy beneficial to love.
07/12/2026

Lacewing on elder in our hedgerow. They're an easy beneficial to love.

"to eat a fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected lik...
06/18/2026

"to eat a fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us by the earth; it is to consume a sacrifice wherein we sustain ourselves at the expense of things. I marvel that this fruit can transform itself into blood and warmth, and perhaps into courage. alas, why does my mind, even in its best days, never possess but a particle of the assimilative powers of the body?"

Marguerite Yourcenar (1951)

Our Mara des Bois are perfuming our harvest days. This year we have them available to purchase at the café , where they...
06/07/2026

Our Mara des Bois are perfuming our harvest days. This year we have them available to purchase at the café , where they also appear on the menu, which is an honor. Go there to eat, drink, and be merry.

Reducing this year's production has afforded the luxury of resting half our fields in cover crop, which itself affords t...
05/24/2026

Reducing this year's production has afforded the luxury of resting half our fields in cover crop, which itself affords the eye the serenity of its greenery.

About wearing greenery-- or "wearing the May," in old French:

"On the first of May, it was necessary to s’esmayer, that is, to wear and to plant the mai to celebrate the arrival of the most beautiful month of the year. “To wear the May” consisted of attaching to oneself an element of greenery: a crown or necklace of leaves or flowers, a hat made of plants, ferns, or branches stuck to one’s clothing. These elements had to be green or predominantly green. To be pris sans verd, that is, not to display on oneself a single element of this color, neither plant nor textile, led to becoming the object of mockery and harassment. Images from the late Middle Ages offer us many examples of this ritual. The most famous is found in the calendar of the Très Riches Heures by Jean de Berry, a splendid manuscript illuminated for that great patron of the arts and book lover in the years 1413–­1416. The miniature representing the month of May shows a princely procession at the edge of a forest. Three young women are dressed in green, the pretty vert g*i (light and bright) mentioned in wardrobe inventories and chronicles, and the sixteen figures are all wearing the mai: necklaces, crowns, leaves, branches."

from Michel Pastoreau's thrilling work on the color (2014)

The brambles have flowered, here olallies and boysens. The third slide shows the wedge shaped plot where our caneberries...
05/24/2026

The brambles have flowered, here olallies and boysens. The third slide shows the wedge shaped plot where our caneberries are laid out, between the grapes and the vegetables. They're beautiful like some kind of wallpaper, except they're better, because wallpaper doesn't normally improve when it gets older but these are actually going to get way better, and even smell and taste better, once the fruit comes along.

From "Utopia" by Thomas More (1516):“For what justice is there in this, that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any o...
05/12/2026

From "Utopia" by Thomas More (1516):

“For what justice is there in this, that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all, or at best is employed in things that are of no use to the public, should live in great luxury and splendour, upon what is so ill acquired; and a ploughman, that works harder even than the beasts themselves, and is employed in labours so necessary, that no commonwealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn so poor a livelihood, and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs? For as the beasts do not work so constantly, so they feed almost as well, and with more pleasure; and have no anxiety about what is to come, whilst these men are depressed by a barren and fruitless employment, and tormented with the apprehensions of want in their old age; since that which they get by their daily labour does but maintain them at present, and is consumed as fast as it comes in, there is no overplus left up to lay up for old age.”

Thomas More (1516)

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53247 NW Old Wilson River Road
River Road, OR
97117

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+15035832028

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