If your mother tells you you should do something and then your daughter tells you the same thing it is probably a good idea to take the advice. So I begin to write about life on Turtle's Walk Farm.

Farm is perhaps a misnomer. We don't make a living off the land here but we are trying to live a life more in touch with our land. One of the best things we have done is to stop mowing so much. As a result the front field goes through a wonderful series of blooming. First the Corn Flowers and Red Clover grow up. The some of the grasses take the lead. As they dry, the Queen Anne's Lace takes over and when those flowers fade the tiny, wild asters create a cloud of white that lasts for half of September and most of October. We mow the edges and a few curving pathes through the field which gives it a lovely green border. A pheasant showed up last January so we must be not doing something right. Less is definately more!