Traveling north and back in time
Driving home from our whirlwind visit to my
father in South Carolina, we seemed to be travelling back in
time. The tree leaves shrank back into their buds until they were
a mere haze and black locust flowers gave way to redbuds. As we
crossed the border of our home county, we passed a large strawberry
field coated with row cover fabric --- a good reminder to check the
weather and notice a frost warning in effect. I followed the
strawberry farmer's lead and covered as many of my strawberry and
broccoli beds as I could, even though the light frost didn't seem to
harm the plants left unprotected.
Lucy had broken into one of the chicken
tractors while we were gone, not to eat the chickens but to eat their
scraps. So I chased down three hens as they happily scratched
through my garlic's mulch (then chased them down again half an hour
later when I realized where the hole in their cage was.) Across
the yard, the chicks seem to have eaten the majority of the grass
clippings I gave
them, along with a gallon of feed, and were begging for more. We
were only gone for 36 hours! Could everything really have
grown so much in a day and a half?
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.