Noonday Notes, Issue 8

Some seasons in life feel like an invisible string of perfectly timed gifts. This past year has been one of them. From the idea for Noonday Farms planted in my heart last August, to tilling up my front yard in January, and to the final delivery on July 1st, the timing of it all has felt divine. I feel like I am finally exactly where I need to be, doing exactly what I was created to do.

Even the rain showed up this week just in time to water in the cover crops I had just seeded. As Ecclesiastes reminds us, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted…” Ecclesiastes 3:1–2 (ESV)

This season has been full of planting and harvesting, starting and finishing, and the rhythm has felt sacred, energizing, and grounding.

But the best timing of all? On Monday we received the incredible news that Noonday Farms has been awarded a grant through Climate Ready Neighborhoods, a project of the Impact Guild and the City of San Antonio Office of Sustainability. Read more about the project below.

This funding will launch our second site located at Grace Northridge Anglican Church. The partnership between Noonday Farms and Grace represents the first phase of a vision to build a hub-and-spoke food system that addresses both hunger and human connection. Thanks to this grant, starting in August we'll prepare and plant a garden, engage our community, and distribute food to homebound and food-insecure neighbors.

Our hope is that this garden will not only feed people but also strengthen community through service, food, and companionship. In time, we envision equipping Noonday Farms at Grace with a walk-in cooler to form the backbone of a neighborhood-level food hub.

If you’d like to support the next season, particularly by helping us purchase the refrigerator so more of the grant can go towards seeds, plants, and farm supplies, you can give here. Every gift helps us meet the physical and emotional needs of our food insecure and homebound neighbors.

Read the rest of the newsletter here.