2024 Vision

Hello, welcome to a New Year. There’s a fresh batch of lambs here at Leafhopper Farm, and the forest all around is alive with bursting buds and early alder pollen- yes, it’s late February, Spring for us here in Western Washington. Our Oso Berry is unfolding white petals of elegant cascading blossoms. Blackberry leaf buds are spring forth, signaling my clippers and maddock to get in their last removals before bird nesting commences. Hard working dogs alert at hawks in daytime and coyotes at night. Hens are laying- a dozen eggs, still at $7 here, but the grain price is up, so egg-flation might hit soon. Free range gleaning, Scratch and Peck feeding, hard working birds. Two clutches hatched this winter, with a third planned for March. Our land will host a second Women and Girls’ Hunter Education Class in April. Much to look forward to.

But enough about Worm City, we’re moving these blog updates to Monthly’s while I take 10 years of these call and responses with land living and sew a few chapters for a fine harvest of stories- both lessons and givebacks, into a book. There are tears, but more laughter in the paragraphs of fantastic exploration and good reflection within. Soils and toils have begun to weave growth and light, both outwardly in stem and leaf, hoof and bleat, but also inwardly, as I continue this work and vision that is EEC Forest Stewardship and Leafhopper Farm. Gratitude to all who shape and support this thriving life!