Incredibly: the second of June. The world in this hemisphere is blooming, budding, producing...the cattle need to be on the land at Limestone Mountain Farm, for the heavy snows we had and the warm weather early has meant that hay could be made now...but I've no equipment to make hay. There is also the need to feed the land, to keep that nutrient cycling happening, so instead of making hay am working to get some cattle and possibly some lambs on the farm in West Virginia. The pic, above, is from 2005, the last time lambs were on the farm.
Right now, I'm at my little place in Nova Scotia, where at Scrabble Hill Farm there is a cover crop of buckwheat over most of my garden space of ~ 40 X 75 feet, and for weeks, since before I traveled south to the farm in order to meet with lawyer-family-surveyor-realtor-others to get started on the many farm tasks there, I've been eating lettuce, spinach, and radishes, fresh chives, oregano, dill, parsley, horseradish, dandelion greens...and trying to empty the freezer. I put the cover crop in before traveling to West Virginia on 10 May, but because of lack of moisture, some warmth, but then cold again, it's not really begun to do more than sprout. Before traveling south again I will put the coleus and other flowers in to the beds up front, and plant pumpkins, squash, the warm weather herbs.
It's a strange dual life, this farming in two countries...www.limestonemtn-scrabblehill.com. But it is what it is, and gives me, despite the struggles, some great joy.
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