This past week we planted 10,000 sweet potato starts.
It is a ‘one-at-a-time’ hand process….so a number of us spent a lot of time on our hands and knees in the field.
We are done!
Jesse, one of my farmer partners, brings a small speaker into the fields. On an early morning we were planting to Native American music.
We named our property Shewatuck Farm – a name the Narragansett Indians used for the area.
We’ve done a good deal to diversify the landscape…adding bird houses and other conservation improvements.
As we planted there were a variety of birds…..definitely watching our progress! A hawk, plovers (we are reasonably near the sea), and different chirping birds.
It was altogether a lovely experience.
I had a real sense for the early Narragansett Indians.
Hopefully we continue to make the connection between plants, animals, and our preceding human inhabitants.
Richard Pace 