Earth Day at Lonely Worm Farm
We will need wheel barrowers, shovelers and pail flingers to fill all these boxes up and planters to sow the first seeds. Come on, you know you want to flex those muscles.
Random Cuteness
When it comes to fences, goats are known to be disrespectful. Ours are no different, particularly Baba, the youngest. She has plenty of room, an acre or two of hilly, rocky woods, along with the paddock behind the barn, and often she and her mother Caitlin will spend the whole day, exactly where we want them, munching poison ivy and low lying pine branches. But if Baba notices me taking a walk near her terrain, she will plow right through the electric fencing, as if to say: Ha! Here I am, uncontainable.
Mugwort
In Europe and Asia, sprigs were hung over doors to keep out evil spirits; in the Americas, Aztecs made an incense from it. It’s also tasty, though bitter, used to flavor German geese and Japanese mochi, and was a prime ingredient in beer before hops became more popular. Hence its name: mug invoking a mug of beer, and wort being the old English word for plant.
Sowing our first seeds!
guests are invited to whip each other with scallions, evoking the cruel lashes of Pharaoh, all the while singing Dayenu. I am definitely bringing some green onions to this year’s seder
The Minor Wonder
White pine weevils are rather cute little bugs with anteater-like snouts that seek out the leaders
