Jill and I spent the last two days at the farm, spreading manure and tilling in the cover crop residues on our first beds to be planted. The cool soil turned over dark and moist, just the way we want it to look. By August it will be baked and bleached by the sun but in the spring, the soil has that crumbly, wholesome look that drives farmers wild. In the following weeks we will be putting in peas, lettuce, and onions.
Another sign of spring is bird activity, killdeer and canada geese in the fields, robins of course, stealing our earthworms, towhees rummaging in the woods; I even watched a sharp-shinned hawk catch a red-winged blackbird in mid-flight!
