O’Neill: Getting through the month of Ughust (column)

Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.

August is the hardest month of the year for me, we’ve taken to calling it Ughust here on the farm. Though the days are noticeably shorter than they were in the peak of summer, the work days are still long, and we still pull tarps at dark. This is the month of drudgery, the time of struggle with burnout.