Harvesting started here today!

It's that time already!
This organic wheat will be used for silage, for animal food.

Mother Earth gratitude

The wheat and oats which surround our home are just starting to turn gold...we have been touching the soil, running with the wind, walking in the rain and loving the sun.





Mother Earth
Eileen Hutchins

Mother Earth,
Mother Earth,
Take our seed
And give it birth.

Father Sun,
Gleam and glow,
Until the roots
Begin to grow.

Sister Rain,
Sister Rain,
Shed thy tears
To swell the grain.

Brother Wind,
Breathe and blow
Then the blade
Green will grow.

Earth and Sun
And wind and rain,
Turn to gold
The living grain.





We give thanks to Mother Earth.

Sol's magic carpet

Sol has been so busy creating himself a magic carpet on his peg loom.

He loves this form of weaving and has made a beautiful magic carpet! I love the way he puts so much time, effort and enthusiasm into his ideas - such joy. He thoughtfully chose the colours and only needed minimal help finishing it off.

He's now busy making two more for his brothers so they can go adventuring with him.

The beautiful magic carpet! I wish him many joyous, magical adventures!

Hay baling joy

The day after the combine harvester harvested the wheat, the hay balers arrived much to the boys' joy.  They decided that this was even more fun and two of the boys claimed they want to bale hay when they grow big.   They just loved watching the bales pop out the back.

And to race from one bale to the next and dance upon them was great fun.  

Now with the fields exposed, we have spotted deer roaming the fields in the evenings and hares bounding about and a fox out adventuring in the early morning.  

Harvesting and wheat weaving

The wheat is being harvested and today they harvested the field directly to the side of our house so we have spent much of the day watching all the action.  Much to the boys' delight, the combine harvester is now spending the night resting outside our bedroom window and will have an early start again tomorrow.

Before the advent of mechanization, which speeded up the harvest process, every man, woman and child became available to help at the harvest, the highlight of the farming year

Yesterday, we did some wheat weaving.

This is the countryman's favour we made.

Corn dollies Sol made.  A mother and a child.

Leo and Noah's wheat and oat bouquet.  (They call it a 'sun'!)  We rolled a lump of clay and then stuck oat and wheat straws into the clay.  A decoration they could manage on their own.

We also made a loaf of harvest bread.  Here is Sol kneading the dough.