Welcome to the first day of Spring, 2019 the most important day in the life of any farm, the day when planting can begin.

Here on Bedlam Farm, this is an important day we are planning a bonfire and I’m cooking a meal for us to eat  out by the fire. The Equinox is not caused by the earth’s rotation, but because the planet has a tilted axis at this time. Spring comes when the sun’s warming rays line up perpendicular to Earth’s axial tilt.

This event, sacred for many thousands of years, signals the arrival of spring, winter’s end, and increasingly warm and bright days that precede the coming of summer. This is the day farmers and rural people prayed for, celebrate and wait for every day of winter.

To me, it is a holiday of color and light, and I am a warrior for color and light. Maria is a pagan at hear, she has been collecting dead wood and cardboard boxes for days for our fire.

Our winters are long and hard, but that’s what makes Spring so precious to us. Soon, time to plant the gardens. No wood stove fires today it’s 50 degrees. Color and light are food for my soul, this is happy day for me.

On some level, the animals sense this holiday, it is a time when they begin to shed.

I am grateful to live in a place where this holiday truly matters. I wish all of you a meaningful spring equinox, and a time of warm and love and peace.