Farmers aren’t always very good at taking vacations.

The reasons are understandable. Farms don’t really pause. Vegetables keep growing, irrigation still has to run, tomatoes need picking, CSA boxes need packing, and plants don’t pay much attention to whether the farmer has decided to take a week off.

But our family has always made vacations a priority.

Part of that is because we believe time away together matters. Some of our best family memories have been made on trips, away from the normal routines and responsibilities of home and farm life. And part of it is because taking time away has reminded us, again and again, how important community is.

This week, we’re heading west for an amazing wilderness adventure in Idaho. We’ll be away from the farm, making memories together, while the work here continues.

The vegetables will still need water. Crops will still need to be harvested. Produce will need to be washed, packed, and sent out to CSA members and customers. There will be problems to solve and decisions to make.

And our crew will handle it.

That’s one of the great gifts of having a strong community of co-farmers, farmhands, volunteers, friends, and family around us. The farm isn’t something that rests entirely on one person’s shoulders. It is a place cared for by many people who know the work, notice what needs doing, and are willing to step in and take responsibility.

In some ways, prioritizing family vacations over the years has helped teach us that lesson. If you believe it is important to occasionally leave the farm, you have to build a farm that can function without you. You have to trust people. You have to share knowledge and responsibility. And you have to accept that other people may sometimes do things differently than you would—and that can be a good thing.

That kind of community makes the farm stronger.

So while we’re off in Idaho this week, our crew will be here watering, harvesting, washing, packing, loading, fixing, noticing, and doing the hundred little things that keep a farm going.

We’re deeply grateful for them.

The ability to step away and make memories with our family isn’t separate from the community we’ve built here. It’s one of the benefits of it—and one of the reasons we’ve valued that community so much from the beginning.

– Farmer Curtis

Pizza Club #17: September 3rd, 2026

This purchase is good for Pizza Night on September 3rd, 2026 at 6pm. Please select a regular or gluten-free ticket. Live music by Abby Waterworth.

Our delicious wood-fired pizzas are cooked in our handmade New Mexico style Horno wood-fired earthen oven at ~800 degrees, taking less than 3 minutes to cook. The pizzas are served buffet style where we offer 4 pizzas topped with our seasonal produce, one of which is a cheese option. Each week we harvest our seasonal, fresh, organically raised produce and create different kinds of pizzas that also feature other local meats, cheeses, sauces and vegetables.

Cancellations will have a 7% charge deducted from their refund to cover processing and software fees.

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Garlic Pickle Chunks

Fair Share Farm’s garlic cucumber pickles are crunchy, sparkling, and delicious.

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