O’Neill: It’s flower time and a new planting year

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.

The air is redolent with the scent of daphne, deeply floral and sweet. Next will come the cherry blossoms, lilacs, roses, then the wisteria. I’m planting jasmine this spring to climb the front of the porch and add to the string of infusions for the senses. Much later in the year the farm will be blanketed by cannabis terpenes, the delicious scents of sweet skunkfunk with floral layers adding to the chorus of the years of my life, echoing back with the sweetness of good memory.