Fall’s first hard frost hit pretty much on schedule last week. Our garden manager Lisa described her view of our lovely little plot the day after nighttime temps had dipped into the 20s as “post-apocalyptic.” We knew that day of death was coming, and had prepared for it—somewhat. But we still can’t help feeling sad.Continue reading “Fade to Brown”
Category Archives: Weather
We’re So Egg-cited!
It’s the second week of January, and finally the hens have started laying again after months of channeling all their egg-laying energies into growing some of the loveliest feathers we’ve ever seen. Seriously, these hens (and rooster Speck, who, happily, seems to have gotten the hens’ message about nonconsensual sex, and has stopped mounting them)Continue reading “We’re So Egg-cited!”
Sowing Daylight
With last week’s winter solstice came the long-awaited (but still painfully slow) return of longer days. Specifically, here in Sunbury, Ohio, the sun is now setting a full seven minutes later than it was for most of the first half of December, when, according to TimeAndDate.com, the Sunbury sun set at a dismal 5:05 p.m.Continue reading “Sowing Daylight”
Cold Comfort
It’s the end of another cycle, the end of the easy seasons. Next up: winter. The first frost is upon us here at Ranch 61, and it fills me with both dread and melancholy. During my first couple years here in Central Ohio, in almost every season, in response to almost any kind of weatherContinue reading “Cold Comfort”
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