The birds in the garden know me. They fly by, landing on the nearest shrub or on the ground looking at me and tweeting. Then a small swarm of them fly by me singing in unison. Nature is so amazing. We are losing this connection with our tech, and way of life. Come to Labyrinthia Guest House for this experience. We can talk about writing.
Today the wild grape vines are getting moved to the Rock Wall Walk along the pasture and managed woodland. These 50 acres here are in different uses. The house and about four acres are planted as a foodscape botanical garden. Approximately 15 acres in pasture are being recaptured with livestock, leaving about 30 acres in forest.
Rudy, the farmer who owned the place before me for about 30 years, and I’ve been here 40 years. Rudy worked the woods as a farmer would. For firewood for the home and would sell pulp and logs to the local mills and firewood to the locals. He had a Farmall tractor and wood buggy to twitch and pull out of the forest.
The buggy is now the center of an island garden here. Got a Sassafras tree from my bothers place in NH, and there is a wild crab that is columnar. It grows upright. A Basswood that will go in a few years, and a few other crabs. This the area that I moved that oak seedling with the amazingly thick woody root.
I did have a woodcutter here about 30 years ago for money to pay the taxes and pick up some groceries. Many “seed” trees were left and section not cut. Seed trees are mature trees that will seed the area with their kind. A guy with a chainsaw cut a meandering trail through the woods up the center of the area. One side is going to be left alone. All the trees falling in a snag and fallen trees with their roots and soil in the air. A place for wild animals to hide and nest.
The front section near the Rock Wall Walk is going to be treated like a European forest in my way of thinking. An area of forest where the trees are managed individually and the area is interplanted with daffodils and shrubs, with a totally naturalized look. Now to get this done!
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