Year: 2019
Messy by nature
There are farms with lines of white stones that pick out the borders of perfectly crisp lawns. Striped. Formal and formed. There are farms with trim hedges that behave themselves. Rectangular boxes of clean green lines that picture frame their fields. There are farms with fields of ryegrass and clover, uncluttered by wildflowers or weeds. […]
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The Consumer Shapes the Farmer
There is a clear idea of community, of what the culture in agriculture means. It means in part, the people. In part the stories the people band themselves together with. But the culture and community of a farm is bigger than that. It’s everything. It’s the sense of place and of purpose. It’s the people […]
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Lambing, loss and unexpected learning
This is from my archive of last years lambing. We are not lambing this year to manage our overstock from last year. We had too many lambs, and made the decision to keep some as hoggets, instead of lambing this year, and buy in store lambs at 6 weeks from other farmers. Service as normal […]
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Snowwwwww Dayyyyyyy!!!!!
The snow came. I clear drifts from the barn doors. Haul down bushels of treehay from the loft and shoulder them out to the flocks. Cart bales of hay and buckets of feed up the hill. Sinking ankle deep in crunching clean snow. No time for anything other than the necessary. Our backup water is […]
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Winter’s Coming…
I love the frost and the snow. The clarity and crispness of the light seems a beautiful thing. What is to be done is clear, that it needs to be done pressing. It’s a clear, simple, uncomplicated and necessary world in the snow
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