Farm Friday, July 14th, 2023
Middle of summer farming
This is the week to give people a farm tour. The crops are weeded and mulched. The plants look healthy. The tomatoes are tied up. The cover crops are thriving. The bees are happy. The tractors are all in working order. Happy children got to walk the llamas.
It was a lot of work to get to this point, and I don’t intend for us to rest on our laurels, but it is nice to take a moment to be pleased with the progress of the farm. Because we are caught up, we indulged in a few bonus projects this week with the students. The students washed the walls of the barn and the coop and gave them a fresh coat of paint. We mapped out and mowed a new labyrinth for the prairie by the school. We walked the trails and checked the sign numbers to verify that they match the map. We went to a nearby lake to go swimming and grill out.
The good life.
