The sun’s getting so much stronger. Even when morning temps are well below freezing and the driveway is glare ice, I know my car will be cozy by afternoon.
My veggie-farmer friends are eager to get into their hoop houses. Like runners at the blocks, they wait for that flash of just-enough solar energy to set them sprinting to the start of another growing season.
2021 Buelingo heifer
Soon there’ll be lambs, kids, calves and chicks arriving at neighboring farms. All those gangly legs and cute faces will be bouncing across fields, butting heads and running circles around their moms. Life on the run. But that’s a few weeks away.
Tonight we’re expecting a couple of inches of snow. Not surprising; it’s March in northwestern Wisconsin. So even as I pick a lighter sweater to wear, I keep a heavy pair of boots stashed in the back seat of my car.
The days are getting longer and the sun’s definitely more yellow. Still, I wait to farm in step the arrival of real spring. Soon enough, our beef cattle will be grazing across Bull Brook Keep again.
