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Late Night Walk With Bats on the Farm
Took a walk with the kids and a Bat Detector on the Farm. Best. Walk. Evah... hawthornhillfarm.com/?p=1517
Reading Nature's temples. About old growth forests.
Two trees provide enough oxygen for a person to breathe for a year.
Each person, long term, requires two trees to breathe sustainably.
Get rid of enough if them and, slowly, we begin, eventually, to not be able to breathe.
Just a little bit of glorious autumnal loveliness from out farm.
Ivy towers. Classic, iconic lovelinesses stitched into the Irish farm landscape
Here's a little bit on why they are engines of ecology, and how lovely they are.
Absolutely gorgeous morning on the river. First real grip of cold that wraps itself around beneath the layers. Bright sun. And everything in mist. River roar from the weir past the bend. Autumn leaves and the world all copper and gold and silver and bronze.
I've an audio piece up on @RTECountryWide
About being trapped in a circle of in rut stags by the farm.
It's lovely. Worth a listen I humbly think.
And. The stag bellows I recorded on farm come across beautifully. Link below.
rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/34…
Curious to think.
We evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to live in places largely alive. Forests, coasts, valleys, plains. Along rivers, lakes.
And we've created places in which to live - cities, and, increasingly farms - that are dead.
Do hard things while you still can old man. A life deprived of discomfort is waiting for you. But. Until then. Clay to be worked. Posts sunk. Rams wrangled. Trees sunk. Beds planted. Life spun between your work, your fingers, the soil. Spades, axes saws and mauls worked. Land to shape and be shaped by too.
Enjoy it while you can.
I'm reading a book. About mountain country. A writer lots of people like said You can't understand this place, truly understand this place, until you've read this book.
I started to read. I like to understand.
The book makes a list of people who can understand the place...
...that said.
Here is a little of what this place is. Here is a chorus of the song of its people and it's land. A verse or stanza in the song poem of this world.
Writers who claim to be the authority on the lives communities and landscapes have led...
You don't want to build a better world. You want to build worse people so you can make money from them.
You are not working towards a better future. You are strip mining the right now no matter what it costs those to come.
You make everything worse, more short term, precarious. You lever people apart and collect money and power as it drains out of the cracks.
It is sobering. Tuvalu, an islamd state, is expecting to be rendered extinct by rising seas.
Ireland is also an island state. And about 1.9 million people here live within 5 km of the sea.
And seas are rising faster in the last 2 years...
Https://www.irishtimes.com/e…
Today's work. Sampling the river Feorish at Geevagh for water quality.
You put a net down, scratch at the gravel with a wellied foot, and count the crustaceans you find.
Here's some of what we found.
They. Are. Amazing...
...the weather: glorious. Location: amazing. So. Running water on a tree lined gravel bed stream.
A day spent counting creepy crawlies in the lee of the babble and ripple of water.
Good work. And we will sample again in Spring and summer, and, maybe, over the next several...
