So. Much. Gratitude.

We are finishing out eleven incredible years at Gaia Gardens in the East Lake Co-housing Community and moving to our own farm:?Love is Love Cooperative Farm in Mansfield, GA .

Our souls are expanded by the gratitude we feel.

Thank you to the founders and members of?East Lake Commons ?for creating and supporting such a special place for small landless farmers. We know that Gaia Gardens will be in good hands with your next farmer, Stephanie Simmons, and we trust that you’ll be as generous and supportive with her as you were with us.

Thank you to all of our incredible customers. Whether you subscribe to our CSA, plant our seedlings in your garden, enjoy our flowers on your table or serve our vegetables on your menu, without you we wouldn’t exist. You sustain us and make it possible for us to thrive. We plan to have heaps more vegetables, plants and flowers available in the coming years and we’re counting on you to keep doing what you do (and to tell your friends about us)!

Thank you to every staff member, volunteer, visitor and student who has pulled a weed, painted a barn, hauled compost, washed a tub, planted a seed, trellised a tomato or done whatever was needed. We have been encouraged by your smiles and the work of your hands, backs and knees.

Thank you to every mentor, teacher and farmer who helped us practice the craft —- from Michigan State to Gwinnett Tech, Douglasville to Cumberland Island. Thanks to Skip and Cookie Glover for giving Love is Love Farm a start 14 years ago. AND thank you to the mighty?Janisse Ray ?who challenged some of us to do this meaningful and rewarding work in the first place.

Thank you to our friends and family who help us get through the difficult days and celebrate our wins.

Thank you to the enormously talented community of growers and producers who keep us fortified and challenged. Thanks especially to all of you who partner with us to provide outstanding products to our CSA.

Thank you to the big hearted and bold visioned organizations that support the work of all these growers.?Foodwell Alliance ,?Georgia Organics ,?Wholesome Wave Georgia ,?Community Farmers Markets ,?Rodale Southeast Organic Center ,?Georgia Farm Bureau ,?Common Market SE ,?National Young Farmers Coalition ,?National Farmers Union , we’re looking at you. Thank you most especially this year to?The Conservation Fund ?for helping us acquire our forever farm and to the?Georgia Cooperative Development Center ?for all the support in standing up our new Co-op. (Also a tip of the hat to the?agricultural co-ops ?that showed us the path.)

An ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone who stepped up to purchase a share or make a donation. We are astonished by your generosity and completely flabbergasted that?we only have 100 shares left to sell. WOW! Thank you.

We will honor your faith in us.

If you think you might be interested in supporting our work by joining the CSA, volunteering at the new farm, purchasing a share or making a tax deductible donation, please let us know.?You can also visit this page for more information .

Thanks to all of y’all collectively for holding space for us to dream a big dream. We are grateful. We are humbled. We are ready!

With Love & Appreciation,

The Love is Love Cooperative Farmers: Joe, Judith, Demetrius, Monica & Russell