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I believe that farm land today is mostly over farmed and that affects the soil negatively. The soil becomes tough to grow on and needs more and is given human intervention in a way that is faster and more aggressive than nature naturally regenerates.
I predict that my soil will continue to regenerate and it will attract new plants, animals, insects, worms, birds and other life to my land. I will be watching and listening to the changes nature will be bringing us and let her guide the way. In my childhood this would be seen as abandoning the land because that was the intent. I am not intently abandoning my land. I am intentionally healing/regenerating her for me later in life and my next generation. It all depends how nature progresses. During this process, I want to observe and gain knowledge and wisdom and intervene when I believe I should.
Currently I have left hay bales on the 1 of 4 paddocks where my late husband had left them after haying. In the beginning of the decaying process small animals like rabbits where using them for shade. Now they seem to be there for the soil to drink in the nutrients and fibres.
I have been enjoying the new nature on all the land that has shown up the last years and it has reminded me of where we came from. The land was dry and dusty and we had deer and fox cross our property and never stay. We had racoons, possums, and skunks that would stay until we made them go because of the kids.
Here are listings of the new nature we have witnessed so far from 2023 until present.
New Wildlife on the Farm
- snow geese, American black duck with babies, sandhill cranes, fish (suspected), baby turtles (all seen in the pond and on land except fish)
-ground hogs, coyotes, deer, rabbits
-wild turkeys, red winged black bird and other unidentified small birds
-brown coloured snake in house and outside
-carpenter bees
-When we took over the farm in 1998, we had racoons, possums and skunks. I have not seen signs of these in over a decade.
Some animals and birds come to visit and others live here while they grow their families.
New Plant Life
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Angular solomon's seal
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Bearded Iris
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Bird Vetch
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Black hawthorn
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Black walnut
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Blue plantain lily
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Border forsythia
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Box elder
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Bradford pear
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Bush honeysuckle
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Canada goldenrod
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Cherry plum
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Common buckthorn
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Common chokecherry
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Common motherwort
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Common pear
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Common prickly-ash
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Creeping bellflower
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Creeping buttercup
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Dog rose
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Frosted hawthorn
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Gray dogwood
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Green ash
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Hedge bedstraw
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Lady's thumb
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Lesser burdock
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Mulberry
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Northern red oak
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Norway Maple
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Poison ivy
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Red raspberry
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Riverbank grape
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Siebold's plantain lily
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Staghorn sumac
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Sugar maple
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Sweet cherry
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Tree of heavan
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Virginia creeper
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White avens
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Woodbine
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Yellow rocket
Nature is regenerating and growing a magnificent ecosystem

















