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The Words Before All Else
Dear Friends and Neighbors, I run my thumbnail down the length of Jewelweed’s translucent, straw-like stem. Split and curled open, the inner surface…
Adam Wilson
Jun 22
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The Old Covenant
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, The Meadow beyond the house window blushes to whites and yellows, purples and reds—Bedstraw, Daisy, Vetch, Buttercup…
Adam Wilson
Jun 15
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Haying Season
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, What makes a farm a Farm? How does it differ from a place where farming once took place? A place whose stone walls and…
Adam Wilson
Jun 2
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The Night Siren
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, I heard from a couple of you who read last week’s Newsletter you found yourself standing at the edge of the woods with…
Adam Wilson
May 27
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Culture-Bereft Poison Ivy Control Program
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Returning to the Farm Sunday evening I experienced a staggering homecoming. Six hours on the road. Travelling through…
Adam Wilson
May 19
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The Landlord and the Tenant
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, After days under the steady influence of North Wind, morning dawns calm and clear. Warm. Stepping from the house onto…
Adam Wilson
May 5
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Money and the Month of May-o.
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, So, you say you have purchased an abandoned Farm. But how? And with whose money? And what are you going to do there on…
Adam Wilson
Apr 28
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Stolen Land for Sale
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, This Farm property, Goose Landing—the old Shermerhorn Farm—was transacted for $475K one month ago. Talking about money…
Adam Wilson
Apr 20
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The Inexperienced Shepherd and Gina's Night Labors
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, There was a plan, and then there was what happened. I had planned and promised to begin describing how it came to be…
Adam Wilson
Apr 15
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A Tangle of the Forgotten, the Long-Dead and the Abandoned.
The question in last week’s Letter—How does the Story of Goose Landing begin?—was actually a trick question. How so? Underlying our hearing of the…
Adam Wilson
Apr 7
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How does the Story of Goose Landing begin?
The calendar reads Lambing Season Eve—Sunday the fifth-to-last day of March—and I am in bed early in an attempt to stockpile sleep before the floodgates…
Adam Wilson
Mar 31
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Blessing the Ewes at Goose Landing
Greetings Friends and Neighbors, Moon travels the clear Southern Sky from East to West this week, waning as she goes. Song Sparrow begins chortling from…
Adam Wilson
Mar 23
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