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Dear Folks: June 28, 1997
Dear Folks, Whew! June is acceleration time on a farm! The days are at their longest, the soil warms up, and everything in the garden — that which we planted and that which we didn’t — jumps up and grows lustily. This June has felt more full of life, weeds, vegetables, flowers, activity, and acceleration than usual. And surprises.
The biggest surprise [...]
Dear Folks: May 24, 1997
Dear Folks, I wish I could transport you to Foundation Farm, this beautiful day in May! Everything here is so green, so full of flowers, so bustling with activity.
And so rainy and cold! We’re way behind in our planting, and what we’ve planted is shivering and refusing to grow. But slowly — excruciatingly slowly — at least a week behind schedule [...]
Dear Folks: April 27, 1997
Dear Folks, One week ago the ground here was covered with snow. Today the front yard is full of yellow daffodils and blue scylla, the forsythia is blooming on the hillside, and I’m going to let the sheep out for their first taste of green grass. That’s spring in New England. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, and then BOOM!
Stephen is busy disking [...]
Dear Folks: March 23, 1997
Hi Folks! It’s early Sunday morning, frosty outside — 10 degrees, deep crusted snow. We’re having a classic March, which means snowy and stormy. The sun, when it shines, pours down heartening warmth. But then clouds roll in, and a blizzard dumps another load of white stuff.
Last week I got caught driving up from Boston in one of those blizzards. Snow, [...]
Dear Folks: February 23, 1997
Dear Folks, It’s still a month and a half till spring, but we got a delicious taste this week of what’s coming! A south wind blew in, and the temperature went ABOVE FREEZING for TWO WHOLE DAYS! Amazing!
After December and January, we kind of forget that temperatures can actually go above freezing. By habit we go out all bundled up, bracing [...]
