Broad Valley Orchard

Hello,
I am sitting here watching the rains gather from our latest gift from the tropics.  Far over the hill I can here some desperate farm neighbor up and towing his ‘jet engine’ , ie.  sprayer, behind his tractor thru his swampy fields and orchards.  Best I can tell, he is just doing it because he [...]

It is August at last!  Our hot and humid July might be history, but August is starting out the same way.  I should be taking some ‘heat of the day downtime’ to do more genealogical research, but after a month of getting up before sunrise, to work as long as I can before the heat [...]