ALFALFA!!! (and Cheat Grass and Wild Mustard)
YAY!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
GREEN IS SPRINGING FORTH!!! —- Tuesday, March 3, 2026
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Third Cutting of the First Field — Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Done!
I put it on Facebook and we sold out completely! Goodness!
DONE!!!
“Laughter is very high on my list for general well-being. When I laugh, I laugh out loud. I feel so hopeful, so light, and it feels so good!” — Cat Cora
Your friend on a western Colorado farm
Linda
Easy Peasy, Thanks — Tuesday, July 1, 2025
A neighbor stopped by. A rancher whose ranch connects to our farm
( photo from the archives)
“You folks be open to me buying that hay? I’ll rake it, and bale it, and haul it. So much a ton.”
Heck YEAH!
35 bales—1,500 pounds apiece! A win-win for all!
(the word of the day: Nefelbata (N): ‘cloud walker’; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams; one who does not obey the conventions of society, literature, or art.)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
A Promise of the Coming of GREEN —- Tuesday, March 25, 2025
There it is! New Alfalfa! A promise of early summer—oh, yes, and middle summer, and not to be forgotten late summer haying season!
What a delight to see—and this year we have not just one 20-acre field but TWO 20-acre fields! (I do think Terry and I are going to be a tad busy 🙂 🙂 ) Just say’n. And we are planting 10 more acres into alfalfa.
“The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.”–S. Brown
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
SECOND CUTTING!!!! —- Thursday, July 11, 2024
I always, and forever, think of the Middle of Summer as the time when we make the second cutting of Alflafa
Yep! We are there! Second Cutting! The Middle of Summer! Time is flying by.
“Summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.:—Henry James
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
It Is Magical Out There —- Sunday, April 28, 2024
The alfalfa is rich, deep, dark, and green!
Lush and wonderful!
MAGIC!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Last of Summer —- Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The last of Summer’s hay leaving for tummies close to Olathe.
The only thing we have left to do now is harvest the corn. It is drying down, but not there yet.
Soon!
Real soon!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
The Third Cutting —Summer is Winding Down, Thursday, September 29, 2022
The third cutting is accomplished. All three fields are now “down” drying.
Depending on the weather, the next step will be baling and hauling it in and getting it sold. (Although, some of it is already sold! 🙂 Thankfully)
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Just a Few More Acres —- Monday, July 18, 2022
By the light of that Marvelous moon
And in the blessing of our brilliant sun
With the addition of water
The new field of alfalfa is growing bigger and stronger each and every day!
Ahh, the marvelous, joyful, time called Summer!
Your Friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Crops and Where We Are Now — Thursday, September 16, 2021
The corn is drying now…past all its growing time getting ready for harvest
Each field (we have three) shows the maturity of the corn –the shucks drying down,
The tops turning gold, then gradually turning brown.
The kernels are dented
and hard enough you can’t poke a hole in them.
The last set of water has been accomplished and then turned off of all the cornfields.
Although, we are still irrigating the three alfalfa fields.
But, for the corn, the growing season has finished. Now we wait for it to dry down to the correct dryness, at which time we start corn harvest.
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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