Week of 9/22/24

Its been another very busy week. I have finished planting the ginseng seed. I then went to hauling off some of the manure, and when I got that done I got a load of gravel and repaired the driveway where the heavy rains earlier this year had washed away a lot of the gravel down the creek that runs through our driveway. I also got a load of gravel fines to to spread in the cow yard after I got the manure hauled from the cow yard. This all beside haresting the garden as needed. The tomatoes, beans, beats, and cucumbers are still producing well. The nice rain that we got last week has really helped, even the grass has greened up again. Ruth cut the lawn after about 3 weeks of not having to.

I then turned the cows into a new pasture, where I also supplement with hay to stretch out the grass. What a pleasent stretch of weather we have had to get the work all done. Sunshine almost every day for the last month with the high around 80 and lows in the middle to high 40s. The farmers are really getting the beans harvested which I think is getiing close to done.

At the farmers market we are doing very well. We about sell out every saturday. This saturday after market we went to the Highland home-coming as the class of 1964 was being honored on their 60th class reunion, which was Ruth’s class. They all met at one of the class members homes for a little get together.

The book “The Heart Remembers” is selling well. All though it appears it is being banned in some areas. All the morris newspapers received a copy of the book 6 months ago. Only one of the editions of the Muscoda Progressive aknowledged that a local author had wrote a new book, and Wendell Smith, the author, was a independent, not on Morris Newspapers payroll.

In some cases it is being with-held from the public for whatever reason, maybe for its content or maybe because of who wrote it. It appears the book is being banned by some.

The book is now available at the Spring Green Library.

-Helmuth Krause