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Matt Noyes<p>Dang, the roasted flaming flare peppers we helped plant, grow, and harvest last summer are HOT. Can&#39;t wait to use them in some chili. Time to soak the beans.<br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Had our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> New Year potluck yesterday. 24 people, five small farms, great food and conversation. Now we have to work on redesign - creating a cooperative? - and recruitment of people to do the work and people to support the work. And I have to write a short piece about FC for my old friends at the Japan Robert Owen Association. Might focus on the generative power of starting from the work itself...</p>
Matt Noyes<p>Lovely morning. Snow off and on, slippery streets on the way to the café where I spent a leisurely morning with one of favorite farmers. Lots of jokes, stories, reflections on poetry, assessments of the 2024 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> season, and creative scheming about labor commoning. Lots to explore; one good starting point:</p><p><a href="https://farmcommons.org/resources/downloads/farmers-guide-to-shared-labor-arrangements/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">farmcommons.org/resources/down</span><span class="invisible">loads/farmers-guide-to-shared-labor-arrangements/</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Full heart: <br />1. My guy Jay is in NYC visiting his daughter and staying in Bklyn with dear friends of mine since my first <a href="https://social.coop/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>union</span></a> days. We just chatted on speaker phone about our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/community_dinner" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>community_dinner</span></a> thing here in COS. It was so great to hear their voices together.<br />2. Earlier today my coworkers and I drove down to Cañon City for a goodbye meal at New Roots Farm for our farm friend Max, who is off to farm in southern France. We sat outside on the porch in the December sun. Lots of love.<br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Catching a cold. Time to test my home remedy: garlic jalapeño honey, all from Frost farm. <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Nice drive out to Good Steward farm to drop off a jar of miso shiru to my farmer friend who has a cold. Of course, he was still working. The Huajatolla mountains in the distance are near the New Mexico border. <br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>At a recent co-op event, a speaker made the case for an ambitious farm worker organizing project and noted, &quot;we just need $1,000,000 to get this started.&quot; </p><p>I think <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@luisrazeto" class="u-url mention">@<span>luisrazeto</span></a></span> is right. We don&#39;t need capital to start organizing. We need people and the resources and access to resources that we each bring. (Need an example? Consider the solidarity economy circuits model described by Euclides Mance. <a href="https://geo.coop/articles/liberation-economist-part-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geo.coop/articles/liberation-e</span><span class="invisible">conomist-part-2</span></a>)</p><p>We started our tiny <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a>, no bigger than a squash beetle, with $0.</p>
Matt Noyes<p>Excellent article on the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Commons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Commons</span></a> as a Legal Concept by Maria Rosaria Marella. </p><p>&quot;In this paper it [is] argued that by unbundling the bundle of rights, rights of<br />use and access can be disarticulated from ownership as sticks that can be allocated<br />to other people, social groups and communities.&quot;</p><p>Very helpful for trying to make sense of our <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> practice of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/commoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>commoning</span></a> the labor process, without falling back into old categories of ownership and employment.</p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/35969919/The_Commons_as_a_Legal_Concept" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">academia.edu/35969919/The_Comm</span><span class="invisible">ons_as_a_Legal_Concept</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Had a great walk through the woods to the cafe with one of my <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> coworkers, did some cooking, and then some co-editing of our one page folding zine for the Building Cooperative Futures session at the RMFU convention next week. We are purposefully going analog, distributing hand-colored photocopies. (The dog is contented because she found a fresh deer thigh bone on the trail. While we sipped coffee and talked about books and films, she ate the joints and got out all the marrow.)</p>
Matt Noyes<p>This, too, is what our <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@luisrazeto" class="u-url mention">@<span>luisrazeto</span></a></span> course looks like. Potluck, with flowers grown by Sonia in a long tunnel we raised a year ago.<br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/LearningActionCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LearningActionCircle</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Really understanding why Marx talks about the &quot;wage form&quot; as I try to think through commoning as a practice, from the standpoint of a worker. </p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
bhaugen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@Matt_Noyes" class="u-url mention">@<span>Matt_Noyes</span></a></span> I had to look up this one:<br /><a href="https://mspreibisch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sweet-like-a-crow.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mspreibisch.com/wp-content/upl</span><span class="invisible">oads/2015/02/sweet-like-a-crow.pdf</span></a></p><p>&gt; Does all that poetry make the peppers hotter?</p><p>Yes, of course.</p><p>P.S. does <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> have an extended explanation beyond the hash_tag findings?</p>
Matt Noyes<p>Farm season is over, time to get back to education and organizing, starting with a timeline so we can see what everyone has been up to since our last meeting in June. <br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/LearningActionCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LearningActionCircle</span></a> <br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> <br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/Organic_Intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Organic_Intelligence</span></a><br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@luisrazeto" class="u-url mention">@<span>luisrazeto</span></a></span><br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@disco_coop" class="u-url mention">@<span>disco_coop</span></a></span></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Last official day of the season, strawberries, fennel, and daikon are doing well. Midnight romas are still thriving, and we got the beds forked and compost spread for garlic planting. Nice to work with Jay, since we started doing farmwork together three years ago.<br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Started marinating, in lime juice, ground beef from a local rancher friend. Making carne apache, a kind of beef ceviche from Michoacan. Separately soaking Anasazi beans to make refritos. I made a garlic tomato sauce yesterday. The same friend gave me and my <a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> coworkers bags of roasted green chiles that we helped grow. Just need to learn to make good tortillas.</p>
Matt Noyes<p>Ending the season with garlic planting and poetry, including this one by Antonio Machado (LXVIII)</p><p>Llamó a mi corazón, un claro día,<br />con un perfume de jazmín, el viento.</p><p> —A cambio de este aroma,<br />todo el aroma de tus rosas quiero.</p><p> —No tengo rosas; flores<br />en mi jardín no hay ya; todas han muerto.</p><p> Me llevaré los llantos de las fuentes,<br />las hojas amarillas y los mustios pétalos.</p><p>Y el viento huyó... Mi corazón sangraba...</p><p>Alma, ¿qué has hecho de tu pobre huerto?</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a> friends on one of our last days of the season, Poptart, Leroy, and Sticks. The human is my coworker, Eddie.</p>
Matt Noyes<p>Today was all about taking the plastic trellising clips off the tomatoes, then tearing up the plants. One of my goals for next season is to devise a viable no-plastic alternative. ( Another goal is to popularize consumption of lambs quarters.)</p><p>We harvested a few remaining tomatoes, eggplants, and basil, and had lots of conversation, especially about nutrition, since our newest member is a nutrition student.<br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>As farming slows, I find myself with more time to read and think. I really want to both enjoy this time and put it to good use. <br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>
Matt Noyes<p>Last day of the season at New Roots, popping garlic heads (xuma, inchilium, musik), dibbling holes, and planting seeds. Coffee at Coyote&#39;s Den on the way home and lots of conversation. <br /><a href="https://social.coop/tags/farm_club" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farm_club</span></a></p>