I can't believe I have not written on this blog in exactly one month.Spring has made its debut, but the weather is still a little nippy. Valentino and Xanthipe are still the only calves that have been born this year. And the plants in the greenhouse are doing excellently. I never knew how much you could miss the sight of baby swiss chard! Not that the baby kale or lettuce is ugly, it's just not as colourful. I like pretty, colourful things. But as John Ruskin once said, "Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for example." But alas, I can not entirely agree. Are trees not beautiful? They are very useful.
But lilies...not so much. And can you eat peacocks? That is why farming is so nice, we usually have an abundance of useful things - beautiful or not. Like cows, they give us meat and fertilizer, and keep our pastures trimmed. And hey! They aren't that ugly.
This is Xanthipe. This was taken when she was still very young.And this is baby swiss chard. The stalks are already starting colour.
