Farming with Martha and Meghan

Meghan made it out to the farm to work, the few weeks before she goes to Alaska. We got the rest of the rows in the lower field weeded, the Crocosmia and Echinacea. Martha rototilled. We moved the Scabiosa and Lupines that we didn't want to til over. Many of the Echinacea had been chewed by the gophers, only their green tops left. Sassy, our farm terrior, spent the afternoon digging holes in the rows looking for the rodents. In the kitchen while we drank water we watched a fly get stuck in a daddy-longlegs web, watched her 8 legs spin the fat black fly into the white woven package. Back and forth we watched the grace and speed of the spider against the flys' constant buzz and struggle. The gophers and the bulbs, the terrior, the spiders and the flies, I love this balance.