Happy Friday from the desert! My friend Amanda will be leading construction of straw bale homes in Moab, Utah, for the next three months with an organization called Community Rebuilds. I came along for the road trip.

We drove through miles and miles of farm country in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado. Soil is getting prepped for planting, baby cows with mamas dotted hills, and hay is being delivered to ranches. Along with those idyllic scenes, we also saw clouds of topsoil being lost in the wind and smelled a cattle feedlot in Kansas for miles and miles–by far the worst I’ve ever had the displeasure to catch a whiff of. I But that’s the nature of where our food originates; some of it is benign, even restorative, but some of it has costs associated with it that we don’t pay for at the grocery store.

So…what’s going on in the Triad this week? Kind of like our gardens about now, not too much, but it’s ramping up to be a great season. Check out the markets page for an update on the market hours and times.

What’s abundant:

• kale
• arugula
• radishes
• spinach

April 6
Westerwood Wednesdays–The Corner Market
The Corner Market – 5:30pm-8pm
First Baptist Church Parking Lot, 1000 West Friendly Avenue

This is the inaugural Wednesday market in Westerwood & the markets plan to continue through the summer. SNAP/EBT Cards accepted

A bit later in the season…