After a sunny spring here at the eco organic micro-holding (small smallholding) in the UK midlands, the crops are looking well and growth's been good. Salad stuff's been available for use in warm/hot May and later crops such as beetroot are showing good promise, along with calabrese which has been a useful fairly recent find. Field crops around if anything look to be too forward, but then again, every season's different.
Though the soil here is a gorgeous black loam type, easily worked and fertile, it does need quite a bit of water in dryer weather, which the small irrigator, working off an outside tap on the cottage, has delivered regularly. The bought wood supply appeared as usual on the driveway in early May, then to be barrowed over a few days into the undercover logstore in the 'logs-istics centre', there to spend the summer drying away. The woodpile is added to by regular sawing sessions of wood from the stored woodpiles here on site, and 'small' wood from the like of pallets is also regularly sawn up and stored in its own undercover bunker - it helps the heavier logs to burn up well in the logstove come wintertime.
Not everything though has 'gone to plan', with the accidental near burning down of a garden shed, and much worse, a nightime predatory raid on the chicken house by what's turned out to be a large 'rogue' badger using its considerable strength to break into the chicken run and then force open the chicken's shed door, with predictable disasterous results - scarcely believable ---
Remembering farm advisory work times brought thoughts round to how diverse human beings inevitably are, with a host of factors affecting such human 'bio-diversity', and yet maybe current trends such as 'norming' may recognise such diversity insufficiently - ? Similarly, modern emphasis on wealth, luxury, 'flash' living and the like may relegate normal and meaningful so-called 'ordinary' life processes and satisfactions to a less important level than perhaps they should be - ?
