Deep Roots CPS Farm

“I sustain myself with the love of family.” - Maya Angelou

This week, we had a lot to celebrate.

There are so many lessons farming teaches us. This week’s lesson was patience.

We watch the sky, we watch the soil, and we move when the land says it is time. We knew the rain was coming. We just did not know how much. So we worked, rushing to get seedlings and seeds in the ground, trusting that the weeks of preparing beds and starting trays were about to be met with a real gift from the sky.

By late Wednesday evening, we knew the rain would be enough to irrigate our fields. By Thursday morning, we were in celebration. Not just for the rain, but for our youngest daughter’s ninth year around the sun.

The morning was beautiful. The rain was here, and our youngest was delightfully excited about the start of her ninth birthday celebration. She had been counting down for the past 365 days, or so it seemed. I prepared her favorite breakfast, pancakes with whipped cream, YUM! She carries the kind of pure joy that I sometimes wish I could still tap into so easily.

There is also a particular joy in patience finally meeting what it has been waiting for. In being together as a family while the land is being recharged by the rain.

That, too, is part of what we are growing.

Earlier this week, we also gathered at the farm for the ribbon cutting of the EcoDome project, created in partnership with UNC Charlotte. It was a beautiful moment to see art, agriculture, design, and community come together on the farm. The EcoDome reminds us that farms can be more than places where food is grown. They can also be places where people gather, imagine, learn, heal, and build a deeper relationship with the land (more to come on this).

This Sunday is Mother’s Day. I am thinking about all the mothers in our community, blood mothers and chosen ones, the aunties, the grandmothers, and the women who feed, watch over, protect, and worry.
You are part of the reason we started this farm.

We wanted to know that our children would have farm space in the city. We wanted to know they would have food they could trust. We wanted them to grow up understanding that good land and good food are not luxuries.

They are birthrights.

To every mother reading this, Happy Mother’s Day. Thank you for the love that becomes everything else.

~ This Week’s Harvest ~
Beets, lettuce mix bags, lettuce heads, spinach, chard, mustard greens, radishes, pea shoots, green onions, shallots, scallion blossoms, green garlic. Strawberries. Fresh herbs include chamomile, cilantro, chives, sage, rosemary, oregano, parsley, tarragon, mint, and thyme. Chicken eggs and duck eggs. Chicken: breasts, leg quarters, wings, thighs, and whole chickens. Gourmet mushrooms. Our signature drinks: Ginger Mint Lemonade and Lavender Lemonade. Every single thing grown and tended with intention and love for you in mind.

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Market Update
Come shop with us at the Uptown Farmers Market (https://www.uptownfarmersmarket.com/) . Market hours are 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. We are grateful to keep showing up in that space and to continue sharing the harvest with our community.

Our next Sunday Market on the Farm is scheduled for Sunday, May 17, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Come shop with us directly at the farm. Come shop with us directly. We will be offering triple bucks for EBT/SNAP customers, which extends your produce dollars and helps put more fresh food on the table. For the full on-farm market schedule and updates throughout the season, please visit deeprootscpsfarm.com (https://www.deeprootscpsfarm.com/)

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A Small Way to Keep the Loop Closed.
Bring us your empty egg cartons.
If you have cardboard egg cartons at home, please bring them our way. We reuse them, and every one you return is one less we need to buy new. Cardboard only, no styrofoam. Thank you for being part of how we steward what we have.

When we pack our farm eggs, we often use cartons given to us by our customers. We place our Deep Roots CPS Farm sticker on them so you know the eggs came from our farm.

So, if you ever pick up eggs from our farm stand and notice that the carton looks like it may have originally come from another retailer or egg producer, that is why. We believe in reusing what we can.

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JJoin Us on the Farm for a Memorable Event: June 28 Fire & Farm-to-Table Dinner (https://shop.deeprootscpsfarm.com/dinners-workshops-and-events)
We are excited about this special event that will be held at our Charlotte, NC farm on Sunday June 28th.

Tickets are now on sale, and they have already started moving. We are grateful for the early support and excitement around this gathering.

We are also excited to announce that our chef lineup is coming very soon. This dinner will celebrate the relationship between farmers, chefs, fire, food, land, and community and there will surely be a few special appearances connected to our Top Chef moment. Stay tuned for more details, but we encourage you to reserve your seat early. This will be a beautiful evening on the farm.

Tickets and full details are available on our website. Get your tickets now. GET TICKETS NOW (https://checkout.square.site/merchant/J8FDA080BM1FW/checkout/QPQ3EJTDXXINUJRB6YB6YPUJ) . We hope to see you at the table.

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Thank you for being here, and for continuing to share the good news about our farm and the market. Your support and encouragement mean everything. Remember, joy is a reciprocal act.

With deep joy and gratitude,
Cherie & The Deep Roots CPS Farm Family

Please visit our website to learn more.
www.deeprootscpsfarm.com

So Much to Celebrate: Happy Mother’s Day Click here for an update from Deep Roots CPS Farm!