Blessed days in the garden....I'm enjoying the sounds of songbirds, the chattering of ducks. Although many days I'm a solitary farmer, engrossed in listening to NPR podcasts on my Ipod as I weed and hoe, other days take on a different, more meditative and introspective pace. Yet others are days are just plain family time, even more precious now as kindergarten looms on the far horizon. Yesterday Mattie and I had a good day together in the garden. Truly nothing compares to the happy stories of a five-year old, excited to be harvesting everything needed for our dinner salad all by herself; pulling tiny baby carrots softly from the ground and choosing just the right colors of the rainbow swiss chard. We're busy planting in the garden, and weeding, and harvesting, and moving chickens, and mowing the grass, and mulching, and days are just not long enough.... Tom made good use of some our rained-on round bales of hay by mulching parts of the garden. We love using roundbales as mulch, as they help suppress weeds, keep in moisture, provide lots of food for our earthworms, and also habitat for all sorts of beneficial spiders.
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