Friday, July 18, 2008

The Farm Awaits the Full Moon


The birds in the pie cherry tree ate and ate and ate today pecking away at one cherry for five minutes at a time, they picked the tree clean. It was a full moon. The echinaea popped open, it's one of the best medicinal plants on the planet. Good things are happening. We turned the compost bins so we could make potting soil, everything in the nursery is outgrowing its pot. The middle of the bins have all the worms, at the bottom the soil is pure organic humus. We used weedmat to cover a few hundred square feet near the lower field so we could plant perennials like Sedum, Echinops, Echinacea and other clumping plants. We also planted Sumac a fabulous tree whose trunk is furry and feels like antlers, it gets a red fuzzy cone all over it in the fall.

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