Reader’s Forum What’s Happening on our Farm

BY LYDIA CARPENTER

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Lydia from Luna Field Farm in Belmont, Manitoba in mid-April to share her COVID-19 story. Lydia is an HMI Holistic Management® Certified Educator in Training

Wian moved some of the young cows up to the yard to sort them for spring calving. Calving will start mid-April and go until end of May or so. We are really looking forward to it. Calving, a time when the meadowlarks and robins return, is one of my favourite times of year.

The highlight of our days and weeks has been delivering food to people in Brandon and Winnipeg. We can’t visit with people they way we use to and have had to develop a new strategy for physical distancing, but we feel close to everyone.

There is a growing comfort in the resiliency