When we moved into our new farm eight years ago, the front was exposed – there was no vegetation or trees or working gardens out front.
The afternoon sun baked the front of the house, and the noise of passing trucks rattled the windows. We are in shade now, and the trucks are muted.
We went to work planning maple, apple, sycamore, apple, white birch, and several other trees out front. Also some lilac bushes.
When I go out front or pull into the driveway, I can hardly believe the beautiful ring of green and flowers that now circles our farmhouse.
We have taken good care of these trees and they are taking good care of us.
We plant a new tree a year, a gift to us and the future residents of our farm.
Besides gifting yourselves and future residents of your farmhouse, you are also gifting the planet when you plant trees. Trees are wonderful absorbers of carbon dioxide, so help combat global warming. I thank you on behalf of Mother Earth.
Mother Earth has been great to me, I thank her…
Thanks for turning me on to E.B. White’s saltwater farm essays.
He’s my inspiration..