News of the Farm

  As June begins, the soil is bursting with vitality.  The high hill field gives up luscious alfalfa, and after being cut, dries in record time in a hot sun. As soon as the pattern of round bales cover the horizon they are sprinkled with rain, a blessing all around. More evidence of the healthy ground are the upcoming shades and shapes of veggies , herbs and flowers, seedlings now, and soon to throw their buds into the suns’ face. As summers’ heat arrives so will the scents, colors and taste of all this be at hand for the insects, the cooks and the butterflies.

            In March, the garlic had its spring quotient of fish emulsion, the pastures were limed and the red and black current bushes banked with compost. It reminds me of the tablespoon of molasses for which my brother and I at 9 and 12 years old lined up each morning in that first month of spring; Mother called it our “spring tonic”.

            Rain has been more vigorous than was winters’ snow. It has allowed extra time to service equipment, reorganize the sheep barn post-lambing and evaluate the ewe lambs to keep, the ones to become next years’ “teenagers”. This year three rams have made the “List” because they represent the ideal qualities required for Mary’s Delight Farm Rams. Yes, hopefully the rams will do their part in the coming years to produce glossy, lofty, fleece, and good market lamb characteristics. So, as the 20^thAnniversary of the farm approaches, you all are wished a productive summer.

 “Mary”

Summer 2008