This is a close up picture I took of our insect
hotel that we made on Monday. The sticks
are full of little nooks and cranies where different sorts of insects can live.
I took pictures for the video which I made
today and which is scheduled to go live tomorrow morning.
I am eating a lot of our sprouts and
microgreens and feeling that they are really helping my recovery from
covid. We plan to give them free to other
recovering people in the next 10 days.
While I was working on repairing the gate
notice I came across these soil sculptures.
I presumed they were made by white ants although when I looked closely
there were a lot of very small black ants busy around the holes.
It rained heavily enough last night for the
ponds to start filling up.
I loved the shadow patterns in the water of the
vegetation around the pond.
I took this picture yesterday as we walked back
from doing our work in the Garden of Unseen Helpers. The shadows of farmers and potential farmers
on the earth.
With the lockdown we’ve decided to just keep
the farm ticking over rather than trying to keep up the usual schedule of
planting and harvesting.
As a result I had time to make this insect
hotel in the Garden of Unseen Helpers.
This is a picture I took last Wednesday of the
storm coming. We had no rain from these
clouds but it did rain several hours later during the night.
I hope we are not in for a generally stormy
time with the pandemic and all its related problems.
