Late August has a current to it. The season is hot, bright, and often smoky here in the Northwest; the summer’s momentum picks everything up and carries it — the markets, the harvest lists, the last long evenings everyone is trying to hold onto at once.
The sturgeon has never been carried by any of it. The great fish of the lakes and rivers has been swimming its slow, deep currents since before the dinosaurs — down where the water is calm, unhurried for two hundred million years. When the moon comes full on the evening of Thursday, August 27, it’s the one the old calendars named for that fish: the Sturgeon Moon. The invitation is to be the sturgeon — to drop below the churn and move steadily through it.
A plant friend for this moon
Our companion for these weeks is Tulsi — the Incomparable One. Where the sturgeon holds the deep, tulsi holds the bright: a clarifying morning herb with a long tradition of being taken for the breath, welcome in the smoky weeks of late summer and the first tipping days toward fall. (New to this leaf? Meet it properly here.)
For the bright night
- Morning: a dropper of tulsi in your tea, and the day’s first ten minutes spent somewhere quiet — no feed, no inbox, just the deep current.
- Evening: find water if you can. The Willamette, a creek, even a bowl on the porch — watch the moon cross it.
- Ask the sturgeon’s question: what would this season look like if I stopped rushing it?
Old rivers, deep currents. See you at the market Saturday.
We grow, press, and rest by the rhythms of this place — the seasons, the soil, and the bright nights in between.
With Warm Ashwagandha Wishes,
Jeff and the Portland Ashwagandha Farm Team
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