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Fall


It is a great time of year when the trees start to change color and the woodlots that we have are carpeted with glorious, oranges, reds browns and greens. Sometimes you have to be careful where you step so as to not find a prickly American Chestnut Seed.
Many years ago the chestnut trees grew tall and big throughout our area, but as seems to happen more often a disease came through and killed them. On White Pine Farm we have some trees only because I disease free stand was found in Northern Michigan and my uncle was helping to reintroduce them.
I could never figure for how prickly they were how the squirrels and other animals could get into them and eat the seeds inside. Of course I am not watching and filming the animals to solve these mysteries, instead I’m too busy trying to make the farm sustainable so that we can also protect and preserve the swamps and the woodlands. Someday when we get a breather from farming I may sit in the woods and observe nature, listen to the songs the birds sing, chase away the dear that want to eat the vanishing trilliums, watch the turtles lay their eggs, watch the sticklebacks swim in swallow waters and be grateful for the glorious world we live in knowing that we as organic farmers are preserving rather than destroying this good earth.