Spring is in full swing here , which think flowers are blooming , trees are bud … and grass is growing . Our winter rest has finally come to a close , and it ’s clip to get outside , bask the fresh air and sunlight , and get to work .
There ’s a encyclopedism curve that come with act from a quarter - acre in the city to 50 Akko in the land . Your time look unlike and your precedence in how to drop it shift . Even though over half of our farm is woodlands , one of our major task is mow , and I hop-skip on the seat of our lawn tractor for the first time this hebdomad .
The upkeep of any farm get with its own set of eccentricities and challenges . The land we live on can be peculiarly brutal for people like us who have n’t been sensitized to its unique means . We live about a half hour or so outside of a major Kentucky township and consecrate horse country , in an orbit where the land quickly turns from rolling unripe pastures to usurious Hill and hollers . The soil here is obtuse and rocky , great for bear in wet but making it tough to turn . And there ’s about a week and a half of a lag fourth dimension in the attack ofspring natural action , which means while the cerise blossoms were flowering in town , we were still waiting for the last dingy twenty-four hours of wintertime to come to a closing . Rachael Dupree
Many of the people around here keep cattle , which aid them keep the terrain from the overgrowth of cedar tree and wild brambles , and a few have gardens , though I would n’t say that ’s a signature feature of animation here . Before this sphere was settle , it was full of cane ( a bamboo aboriginal to Kentucky ) and maintained by the wild buffalo that consider this country their stamping earth .
We do n’t have cattle to help do the mowing for us , so we have to rely on our John Deere . At good , Mr. B and I will probably have to dedicate at least four hours to the chore each week . While I discover it a rather relaxing and pleasurable labor , it ’s not as mere as cut clean lines into a vast open battleground . We have to carefully voyage hills , pay attention to the consideration of our doughy valleyland and watch out for modest Boulder sticking out of the ground that could easily smash a mower steel . Your creative thinker definitely has to be engage if you need to avoid a snafu — or potentially something worse . All the while , we ’re getting our garden quick fortransplants , determine up effectual fencing and considering what to do about some of theinvasive growthwe have around the property — not to mention our full - sentence jobs and long commutes . Rachael Dupree
Days are go to get longer , the bugs are die to get buggier and the air is going to get sticky , but for now , we ’re enjoying the seasonal revivification of colour and using this sentence to ease back into the work and fashion of living that brought us here in the first property .
Rachael Dupree
Rachael Dupree
