Spring has sprung and school is done, despite today's chilly weather. This season's kale, chard, spinach, tomatoes, peppers and herbs combined with the returning strawberries, blackberries, catnip, and marigolds are saturated with excessive spring rains. The ponds and rivers are abundantly full and flooding. I borrow views of the green Flint Hills while training for my first century bike ride and spend time coveting others' farms. With reasonable confidence, we hope this will be the summer we get back to the country, satisfying our urge to roam and root.
The contents of our refrigerator include greens and herbs from our garden, foraged wild onions, lettuce from the EHS greenhouse, and eggs from G&L Whole Food. It will be a few months before my own three backyard hens are laying, but even observing them seems nutritious.
This time around I have noticed and given appreciation to the softness of spring; and while some areas have too much, I am so thankful for rain and mud and having enough.
