If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow-growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it,
if we will make our seasons welcome here,
asking not too much of earth or heaven,
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare will live
here, their houses strongly placed
upon the valley sides, fields and gardens
rich in the windows. The river will run
clear, as we never know it,
and over it, birdsong like a canopy.
On the levels of the hills will be
green meadows, stock bells in noon shade.
On the steeps where greed and ignorance cut down
the old forest, an old forest will stand,
its rich leaf-fall drifting on its roots.
The veins of forgotten springs will have opened.
Families will be singing in the fields.
In their voices they will hear a music
risen out of the ground. They will take
nothing from the ground they will not return,
whatever the grief at parting. Memory,
native to this valley, will spread over it
like a grove, and memory will grow
into legend, legend into song, song
into sacrament. The abundance of this place,
the songs of its people and its birds,
will be health and wisdom and indwelling
light. This is no paradisal dream.
Its hardship is its possibility.
Thanks for a wonderful Year!
It was a wonderful year here at three Creeks farm.
we'd like to thank everyone who supported us in 2016.
To the generous landowners that gave us a place to grow - Joe Dames, Jim Karpowicz & Laura Billings
To our high tunnel & greenhouse crew - Susan, Jesse Mudd, Joe Dames, Tim Carey, Josh Wright, Matt Barnes, David Dearnley,
Dave & Katherine Reed
To everyone who helped in the field - Coop, Nancy Eaton, Sally Vander Wyst, Lyra Noce, Justin Hickerson, Terry Durham, Joe Klinefelter,
Todd Day Wait, Drew Wilson, Julie Frala, Mike Wright
To all the owners and employees at Missouri establishments that support local food and farmers -
COMO:
Nikki Pyatt & Russ Baurichter @ Clover's Natural Market
Chris Dignan, Kiel Herman, Mark Sulltrop @ 44 Canteen & 44 Stone
Jamie Davis & Patrick Connor @ Cafe Berlin
Ryan Arnold @ Old Hawthorne
Mike Odette @ Sycamore
Reed Crull @ The University Club
Vanessa Mabus @ Cooper's Landing
Adam Wells-Morgan & Dan Dethrow @ Flyover
Chris Rietman @ Lucky's Market
Kimber Dean, Kalle LeMone, & Chef Beth @ Nourish Cafe
Lee Lockhart @ Main Squeeze
Shelly La Fata & Bryan Maness @ Ozark Mountain Biscuit Company
Kim Reitz @ NRCS
Megan Fox & Alan Helland @ Blue Fox Farm
JCMO:
Isabel Jacome @ The Lincoln University Farmer's Market
STL:
Lucas Signorelli @ St. Louis MetroMarket
Lulu Loomis & Robbie Tucker @ Lulu's Local Eatery
Ryne Watts @ Magnolia Cafe
Becca Widzer @ Local Harvest Grocery
Jessica Douglas @ Flowers & Weeds
Tara Lansangan @ The Mud House