Farmer Tom is a one man-show, unless you count the dozens upon dozens of animals that are slowly transforming the rugged land through rotational grazing patterns, proving, in short, that many hooves make light work.
As you prepare for succession planting and look ahead to new growing spaces, please consider that creating and maintaining permanent planting beds is the starting point for recognizing soil as an ecosystem of micro- and macro-organisms.
In the wild and in the garden, the season is about a month later than last year, when I noted that spring arrived a month earlier than the year before.
The summer of 2016 was the first time in my 25 years of making my home on the Taconic Plateau that I witnessed dry streambeds, shrunken ponds and even the rich top layer of my deep garden beds become dust.
While the media informs us about the devastating affects of carbon dioxide pollution in our atmosphere, we remain uninformed about the role of carbon as an integral part of life on our planet.
