Old Time, Celtic, Maritime Music, Gardening and Small Scale Farming

I didn't know I was a musician gardener.
All my life I've loved getting my hands dirty gardening, keeping small livestock, and playing traditional music, but I always thought that was just a peculiar combination that occurs in a completely random fashion. But one day my wife Sara and I were talking with a neighbor who ran a one acre educational garden down the street from us. He mentioned that as soon as the growing season was over he was going to hit the road with a bluegrass band he played with. He smiled and said that he felt really blessed to live the life he had- getting to play in the dirt and play on the stage. I had no idea he played in a bluegrass band so we talked shop about music, gardening, and travelling for a bit. After we said goodbye and started walking away Sara turned to me and said "oh I know what you guys are, you're Musician Gardeners."
Suddenly it clicked, all my life I've known and met people who combine their lives like that. friends, neighbors and other folks who combine their love of the land with a love of music, often the very music that grew and still grows out of that land.
This blog hopes to explore that relationship and to let other Musician Gardeners out there know that we're actually a demographic!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

WINTER FARM PICS

A few pictures of the new place during some relatively rare valley snowstorms.




east view.  looks like a mountain but it's really a bluff, we're in a pretty deep canyon which shelters us frome the harsh palouse winds, and is one full growing zone warmer (7A)

Baby Clo, keeping warm

The new recently finished goat shed.  No goats yet but I hope to remedy that soon



Hard working farm girl

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  1. JohnJanuary 13, 2013 at 7:14 PM

    Stay warm Clover May! What are you doing outside in the cold? What are you planting this time of year June?

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