From the February 2012 e.News
Well, it looks as if winter has officially arrived here at Hidden Villa! There's a noticeable frost on the ground in the mornings, the creek has slowly started flowing again and our fields are lying fallow until the spring! I'm always delighted to see the creek return after the season's first significant rainfall as it's a tangible indicator not only of the seasonal transition but also of programmatic cycles on the farm.
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Daylight Savings always throws me a little off kilter. When I woke at a quarter to nine on Sunday, which is a little late for me, and then realized that it was actually only a quarter to eight, I was pleased. This gave me plenty of time to bake a delicious fresh raspberry and dried apple coffee cake for breakfast. Fall daylight savings is my favorite because we get a free hour. Conversely it also means that it is nearly dark at five and, recently, very cold. This is dual edged sword. I really love it when the season changes and the rains come that replenish our aquifers and change the landscape from the dead brown of late summer and early fall to the bright new green of winter and early spring. Yes, this is another story of how, as the season changes, the farm follows suit.
Yesterday we did a field walk to survey how our crops are doing and to prioritize upcoming work to be done. Walking through our beds of bulbing fennel and sprawling green beans, curing potatoes and sweet corn stretching tall, the plants showed me where we are in the season. As someone new to farming and having a closer relationship to my food than I have before, seasonality is taking on new meaning for me. I understood it in theory, but am now intimately getting to know it.