In the past ten days we have welcomed two farm babies! Our doe Ky, had a healthy baby girl, we've named her Onyx. Our bantam hens have also been co-parenting, and three of the hens have welcomed a baby chick, yet to be named. Our plant babies have also started to go into the ground, especially in the greenhouse. The ground is waking up and it feels like, so are we. The rock walls in our new terraced herb garden and growing every day and our brick pizza oven is getting a make over as well. Everything is moving and stretching and we are relearning how we fit into this awakening, just like we do every spring. I feel like Dinner and Brunch club are right around the corner, as well as the first week of the small CSA we will be running this year. While completely overwhelming, all of this awakening and excitement is contagious and never fails to lift our spirits.
The dog grabs tufts of grass in his mouth, shaking them back and forth, intoxicated by the freshness of everything. Ky lifts her nose to the air and opens her mouth, welcoming spring inside her body. We sit on the newly made bench imbedded in the rock wall, warm slabs of slate baking in the shy spring sun. Even though the sun has not saturated our bodies yet, it's here. It comes a little earlier and it stays a little later than it used to and soon it will press us against the ground, remind us what it feels like to have heat inside our stomach.
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