Farm Journal- June

With the pruning complete and the pollination nearly so we swing into June.

Many people have been asking how the berries are doing and we always say the same thing- very well. Yes, they survived the winter cold and the spring drought. The other question everyone asks is when will we be open and we always say the same thing- the second week in July.

This month as the berries begin to form, the nets will go up- always a beautiful sight and a sign of things to come. We are looking forward to this year's blueberries as much as everyone!

We hope you enjoy the poem below celebrating flowers in the meadows.

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II, 14

Look at the flowers, so faithful to what is earthly,
to whom we lend fate from the very border of fate.
And if they are sad about how they must wither and die,
perhaps it is our vocation to be their regret.
 
All Things want to fly. Only we are weighed down by desire,
caught in ourselves and enthralled with our heaviness.
Oh what consuming, negative teachers we are
for them, while eternal childhood fills them with grace.
 
If someone were to fall into intimate slumber, and slept
deeply with Things-: how easily he would come
to a different day, out of the mutual depth.

Or perhaps he would stay there; and they would blossom and praise
their newest convert, who now is like one of them,
all those silent companions in the wind of the meadows.


Excerpt from Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Stephen Mitchell.