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 [email protected].
August is a time of contradictions, struggling with the heat, reveling in the abundance. It has been a season of struggle with incursions from hungry wildlife; we had a wet winter but virtually no spring rains, and the landscape is parched and thirsty. The deer have been testing my fences more than I have ever experienced, and we’ve had to chase one doe out several times after mistakes with gates and her persistence.
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