Let's Get Greauxing

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.  Amos 7:1

Amos was the first prophetic book of the Bible, written in 750 BC.  Can you imagine?  That was a long time ago.  In the first verse of Chapter 7, we learn that they were making hay to feed their livestock.  As modern as we claim to be, we're still making hay like they did 2,772 years ago.  To clarify, they didn't have hay balers and tractors, but they were making hay.

When it came time for us to purchase hay this year, we did what we always do.  We purchased about 75 square bales of some good bermuda hay from a neighbor down the road.  You can read about that adventure HERE.  But we also roll out round bales, too.  I purchase those from another neighbor.  When I called him, he had bad news for me.  Covid and broken down tractor and baler prohibited him from making any hay.  Fortunately, a friend made hay and he delivered 8 bales to me.  Good, barn kept hay.  You can see the seven I have lined up next to the gate.  You can also see the animals circled around one of the bales that I rolled out.

Cows eat grass and hay, but we (the humans on Our Maker's Acres Family Farm) give them a run for their money in consuming vegetables.  Lately, we've been enjoying cabbage, kale, spinach, parsley, broccoli, cauliflower, and plenty of carrots and lettuce.  Here's a patch of carrots we've been pulling:

The carrots are fat and sweet.  We've been oven roasting them with olive oil.  Delicious!

We also have been eating them in salads.  We're expecting temps in the upper 70's next week, so the lettuce will be turning bitter soon.  You might be thinking those are beets in the colander, but they are actually Cosmic Purple Carrots.  They have a purple "wrapper" but the interior is orange.  I'll have to show you our Atomic Red Carrots.  They are red all the way through.

Spring is on its way.  In fact its right around the corner.  We planted over 100 seed potatoes the other day.  Next week I anticipate putting in a lot of other spring crops.  If you get a chance, pick up some seeds and start growing!  Food you grow at home always tastes better.  Let's Greaux!!