Noonday Notes, Issue 28
What a year!
Noonday Notes
Issue No. 28
December 19th, 2025
As I look back on this first year of Noonday Farms, I’m still shook that it happened at all. Last August, this idea was a seed in my heart and lots of pages in my journal. A year later, that seed has grown into two farm sites actively growing and delivering food to our community. What excites me the most is how little this has felt like my project. Even though I have a history of getting stoked about the next new thing, this has felt more like being in the passenger seat; listening, discerning, trying to take faithful next steps while God, my community, and generous hearts carry the work forward. Vision casting into a sea of ready helpers.
Under this fertile land of service is the part that has always drawn me to this kind of work, what Isaiah 58:10 our origin scripture reminds us. That when we pour ourselves out for others; when we feed, clothe, and care for others we are lifted as much as the ones we serve. Even before I knew God fully, service was always a way out of my own gloom, a way to step outside myself and into connection, purpose, and joy. Quite literally Noonday Farms has saved me from many days of gloom.
This year has had many lessons in faith, growth, solarization (IYKYK), trusting the process, and the reminder that we are created to work and keep the garden. Our soil is being tended, people are being fed, and seeds literally and relationally are being planted. What a gift of delight it is to be a witness to all this work. Sigh.