meadow
Working with The Vermont Land Trust and the Windham County Conservation District, Mary and I are working to restore our five acre meadow to a native habitat for bird and wildlife. This post outlines the specific steps we have recently taken in that effort.
Read MoreI’m going to shift for this coming winter from posts about our garden to pay attention to a five acre meadow we own, a meadow we are in the process of “restoring”,“rewilding”, “conserving”.
Read MoreIt wasn’t until one day in mid-April of 1984 that we learned all those eight or ten barn swallow nests clinging to rafters of our 150 year old barn would in fact be occupied. Because we had moved in to our sadly neglected 200 year old farmhouse the previous December, we had no way of knowing if those nests were simply artifacts from the past, or nests waiting for the return of their builders.
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