Terra Brockman
Terra Brockman is the author of The Seasons on Henry's Farm (Agate Surrey). She farms with her brother and family in the Mackinaw River Valley of central Illinois.
All hands join in to get 40,000 pungent cloves into the ground.
How does the blazing sun produce so much refreshing fruit?
We invest each seed and young plant with the exuberant yet completely rational hope of compounded returns.
By summer, the plants are working overtime. It's a wonder we don't have as many words for green as the Inuit have for snow.
Harvesting wild greens always returns me to our species' hunter-gatherer roots. Not so long ago, this is what people did the world over.
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