Motherly love
We've been making the family
Christmas rounds, which means I've been off the farm more this month
than in the previous six months combined.
All of our visits have
been wonderful, but they make me aware how much we've drifted outside
mainstream society in recent years.
Everyone's been very
forgiving, but only my mother seems to understand why I think her dog
run looks like the beginning of a great rotational
chicken pasture system.
Only she can at least
pretend to be excited when I find a little collection of stump
dirt drifting out of
a diseased tree in her backyard.
And only she would think
to give me a whole truckload of
biomass for
Christmas. Thanks, Mom! Merry Christmas, everybody!
Our chicken waterer keeps our flock's water
sanitary just like those leaves will refresh the deep bedding and keep
the coop floor clean.
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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.
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Hope the two of you have a lovely holiday and new year. You have both brought me a great deal of joy reading about your lives and projects. I am disabled now and unable to live self-sufficiently anymore, but get great vicarious enjoyment from your adventures....
Thanks!!!
My dad gave me the last bags of raked city leaves a week ago and as I added them to the compost pile I thought what a gift they were. I used to want things like big screen televisions and new cars. Now I use as 24 year old truck to haul my dead leaves which bring me as much joy as I have ever had from those other things and it didn't cost a thing.
May your new year be full of biomass joy! Thank you for this blog. I love reading and learning.