After a long, rainy summer, the field is nowhere near this short.  I’ve been mowing down seven-foot-high weeds over acres of the field (can’t wait for the cows to arrive and do this for me!).

But, before the weeds got really, really out of hand, I was quite happy to make some order out of the chaos by mowing some paths.

Bush Hogs are just wonderful!

It may not look like much to you, but those first paths were a little bit of control in what had become (and continues to be) a very long, frustrating, and out-of-control process.  These paths will separate the various sections of pasture from each other, from the vegetable areas, and from the orchard.  This one runs perpendicular to the north-south gravel road near the western edge, straight across the property to the eastern treeline.

More than just a path, it was the beginning of trying to make the lines on the paper come to life and of starting to make sense of what we could do with more than nine acres.