At a time when things have never felt more divisive, I hopped in the car on a beautiful spring Sunday morning, heading north from our little farm in Lewis County up to Chimacum, Washington, for a tasting tour at Finnriver Farm and Cidery, a grassroots organization hell-bent on reconnecting with the land and growing community.

It was when I started seeing her bagels pop up in her IG feed that I knew I needed to discover just where Michelle was headed because I knew wherever it was, I wanted to follow – potentially eating bagels along the way.

This is not the first time I’ve written about Muhammad Ayub and what he’s doing at Dancing Goats and Singing Chickens Organic Farm. It’s not the second time, either. It’s the third.