Lessons from a Vegan Yoga Farm

Things I have learned from working on an organic, vegan farm:

1. How many meals a week should be principally comprised of squash: 1. How many meals a week are based largely on some variation of cooked squash: 14.
2. When you live on a farm in the winter your crops (and thus your meals) consist of: squash, arugula, and apples.
3. Chickens are an essential component on a farm, even when you work on a vegan one that doesn't allow the consumption of meat or eggs. No one knows what purpose the chickens have; I'm going with esthetic value?
4. Like chickens, onions are also apparently essential to any true farm. Chives and pearl onions speckle the crops even though it is against the farm's religion to eat anything from the onion family.
5. I have lost my unhealthy obsession with weeding.
6. But have since gained an unhealthy obsession with uprooting dead squash plants.
7. Flies are just a way of life.
8. Despite the frost on the ground and the fact that I can see my breath as I pull weeds every morning, sunrise is incredibly gorgeous.
9. After eating nothing but squash and arugula and apples, a vegan birthday cake made with sugar, dulce de leche, (and yes apples too), tasted like a little slice of heaven.