Getting Ready For Clover

This spring we plan on planting up one of our fields with various clovers for the bees:  white clover, crimson clover, and sweet clover.   Harold talked to a couple seed dealers and we hope to get a good price for the clover we need for planting.  So today Harold did some disking of the field for the first time this year.  It is finally dry enough to get into the field and start to do some work.   A field of clover will be wonderful for the bees!! This field was our former horse pasture.

Working up the ground around the hops area.  "Lake Harold" is in the background, the other small lake on our farm.

This is a pretty good sized field.  Harold will work it over a couple more times before planting.

A closer view

I almost had to get down on my stomach for this picture!

While Harold was working the field, I took a little hike down some of our trails before the ticks get too bad.  I don't walk through the woods during tick season!

One of several trail paths

This is a path that I rarely take, through a part of the property that we don't get onto very much.  But today there was a big bog to go through and I didn't have my boots on, so I decided not to proceed further.   But I was able to pick some pussy willows to put in a vase in the window!  I didn't encounter any ticks yet either!