Tag: corn
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Dawn Corn Harvest
At dawn. Probably figuring we were already awake anyway. And they were right. The combine harvesters began to strip our fields of the organic corn. Organic or not it is still a monster machine. I was not ready for him to start that early so the shots were taken on the fly. Very soon –…
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Japanese Beetles Return
Forget the cicadas. Forget the grasshoppers. Ignore the flies for a moment. The most destructive insect in our organic gardens and in the fields is the Japanese Beetle. And they have arrived. They hatch out of the ground in late June and for six weeks voraciously skeletonize the leaves on our trees and in the…
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Ride along on the Big Tractor
‘Is that you in the tractor’? I texted Farmer Ross. The big John Deere with its planter boxes had been slowly trolling back and forth around the house for a few hours. ‘Three minutes’, he texted back. So after a couple or three short minutes I walked out into the field. The ground flat and…
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Change coming
‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new! Wind in the Willows. I am sending this book out to my children. I need to read it again too. Looks like we are going back to the masked days…
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