Leo Edmiston-Cyr ⁽¹⁰⁾

Or, some more time away and good weather which means more outdoor play and lots of other farm related work to do which means less time for writing and posting. Recently, I've been catching up publishing posts I started a month or more ago. Today,…

Walking around the field there are so many, many plants doing their own thing. I am filled with a sense of belonging, engagement, and respect for their contribution to my life. It is so diverse in height, leaves, flowers, stems, and colors. It is shocking…

The weather has been mostly sunny and warm since my last post. That is a big part of the reason I'm starting this post 11 days later. Before I left for vacation I had mostly finished enclosing the herb drying rack I previously posted about…

I have been growing Elderberries from selected local varieties for several years now. This last year, I decided to buy some named varieties. I bought 6 new elderberry plants from Fedco trees last winter along with some perennial herbs. They arrived this spring and I…

Wow, this has been a wet spring-summer. Here is the view from my window July 16th... and most days since... sometime in May. Here is a little chatter in the media about our recent weather: That poses lots of challenges with our short growing season.