Hatchling box turtle
Weeding
may be a boring job, but it has its perks. While ripping up big
weeds in the upper raspberry patch, Mark came across this tiny box
turtle. Ten minutes later, he found another! I guess our
berry patch has the box turtle seal of approval.
I have to admit that I'm
a bad, bad farmer. A good farmer would move the box turtles out
of the area since they like to eat strawberries and tomatoes.
Instead, I carefully relocated the pair to the shade under the worm bin and gave them a strawberry
apiece. What can I say --- finding a hatchling box turtle has
been my life-long dream.
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
Want to be notified when new comments are posted on this page? Click on the RSS button after you add a comment to subscribe to the comment feed, or simply check the box beside "email replies to me" while writing your comment.
One of the best things about living out of town are the critters. It takes me back to when I was a kid and I ran my own version of an animal rescue. I rescued the wildlife even if it didn't necessarily need rescuing. Clams, lizards, snakes, bably birds, turles of every kind, oppossum, and a yound red tailed hawk that hadn't quite got his wings yet(I fed him a steak and watched him fly awy the next day.)
Now I see the lizards in the greenhouse, the bullfrogs that live in the driveway drainpipe, a water turtle I saved from the road and I realized just how beautiful and perfect they all are and how wonderfully fortunate I am to have the opportunity to visit with them...even the rather large copperhead snake that was crawling up the side of the barn the other day.