I promised myself when we moved that I would mow our lawn myself, I wouldn’t hire anyone to do it. I love riding around on Florence’s ancient lawn mower with my earphones on listening to Van Morrison. We were swamped putting in the new gardens today and the grass is coming up, so we pulled out a plastic orange fence we used for crowd control during the Bedlam Farm art shows and spread it out behind the house. I let Lulu, Simon and Fanny in to mow the grass, and they were stellar, happy to take the rising grass down a peg or two.

This is a big new idea for me. We keep the sheep away because they will go through a small fence but the donkeys won’t. I am always amazed at  how quick the donkeys are. They watched me set up the fence and when I opened the gate, they came right out and started mowing.  I will mow the front of the house, the donkeys will mow the back and the dog pen area. They are great at getting in corners and around bushes and trees and they move evenly and cleanly. Talk about green mowing. Photo Album on Facebook in awhile.