Thursday's crop tour took us south and east of VanKleek Hill. Prescott County is Eastern Ontario's dairy capital. We saw hundreds of dairy farms, most of which seemed to be very well organized and prosperous.
Corn crops look very good and...
.... many fields had been harvested already.
The unseasonable warmth of Thursday made it look and feel like spring.
Our goal was to travel in a south-easterly direction to find Ted's cousin's grain handling operation: Lancaster Grains & Oil Seeds.
Some roads were a little narrower than we anticipated.
Hmmmm.....
We tried to move it, but it was too heavy for us.
Walking back to the truck, I noticed these colourful spots on the maple trees. "Pattern Tapping". I never knew there was such a thing. Many farms have their own maple bushes in this part of the province. Sounds balanced to me.
The rest of the images were taken through the truck's windows. There's the Hoekstra family's grain bins. Ted had a chat with a couple of their workers.
Sometimes, driving on the road felt like we were at a farm show. New and fancy equipment passing us by.
We were on the road at 7 this morning.
The weather is changing. It looks like November. We wound our way westward through places like Chesterville and Inkerman. We were back on the 401 at Prescott. The sunrise shed an interesting light on grain bins as we sped by.....
.... and November skies rolled in.
It was lovely to spend a few days in an intensive farming area. We need to preserve every hectare of farmland. They're not making more of it.
“We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. ...
We have been wrong.
We must change our lives,
so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption
that what is good for the world will be good for us. . .
We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation
and the ability to be worshipful in its presence.
For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world
that our species will be able to remain in it.”
Wendell Berry
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