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.
With this glorious period of high pressure sunshine drawing to a close tomorrow, we are working to button things up and get the livestock off the pasture and into the barn. Yesterday I mowed Amber’s flower beds, and we covered the whole zone with cardboard, then layered compost on the beds and straw over the whole area. It looks so different from the profusion of dead and dying flowers, like a clean slate, a blanket covering the beds to sleep for winter.
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