In which our columnist celebrates another year, and the passing of seasons.
Tag: Happy Day Farms
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing
O’Neill: Proper rain and summer harvest (column)
“I couldn’t be happier to have the moisture, and am excited for the chance to make a fire in the woodstove and make a soup or roast. “
Posted inArts & Culture
O’Neill: Farming as a symphony (column)
“Over the course of the year the farm plays at different cadences, some more uptempo and frenetic, some slow and reflective.”
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing
O’Neill: The days of smoke and tomatoes (column)
“Farming is kind of like a 3-dimensional puzzle; you know what all the pieces look like but you’re never real sure how they all fit together because of changes in weather, pests, labor and marketability.”
Posted inAgriculture & Fishing, Cannabis, Health
O’Neill: On Covid-19 and being out of commission (column)
“It’s a hard set of realizations that if I’m not up to snuff the farm is going to struggle, yet it’s also the baseline of any farm operation; no farmer, no farm.”