Official TEG Poll: Seasonal Favorite

[TEG Project Manager]

Each season brings its own joys and challenges on the homestead. Spring is full of new beginnings, summer is busy with growth, fall is about harvesting and storing, and winter is the time to rest and plan. Everyone has their favorite, depending on what they love most.

Which season makes you happiest on the homestead? Do you live for planting, love the harvest, or cherish the quiet of winter? Share your favorite season and what makes it special for you.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Favorite season is Autumn. Leaf color in the Pacific Northwest is loaded with color, shades of the rainbow ignites the calm and peacefulness in the landscape from the mountains, rivers snd plaines to Seaside.

 

[digitS']

When I was a child on the homestead, Autumn was when I could be off to school and doing something different from farm work. The weather was usually pleasant until November so there was a good start to the school year and learning about a wider world and the people who live there.

As I became more involved with plants and in growing them, Spring was more important. I had to be past the wet, rainy part and into sunny days. With experience, small plants came to suggest a promise of reward .

Of course, the reward came with Summer. We can stand under a blue sky in the garden and be surrounded by it!

The Winter, snow-covered landscape can be so peaceful ... if there is any clearing of heavy, Winter clouds — there is light surrounding us, even during the nights.

Steve, color me undecided

 

[digitS']

 

[P Suckling]

Well the big harvest for us is not summer, but early autumn. And this is so busy, it can get overwhelming at times. But then when we can take one packet after another out of the freezer and one jar after another from the pantry over the winter months, it was definitely all worth it. Also the full store of apples, onions, potatoes, garlic and winter squash is a joy to behold. However winter is not really a period of rest, there are still winter vegetables in the garden. Carrots survive quite well, so do turnips, kale and sprouts. And the lamb's lettuce, that mainstay in spring, is already sprouting together with the landcress which will flavour so many early season salads. The snow cover does not usually stay for long. Spring however, is the maddest season of the year. Everything demands to be sown, to be transplanted, to be protected from slugs and late frosts all at once. No time to rest at all for the gardener, until every last inch of the garden is occupied once again. If nature is kind with sun and rain at the right time, summer is possibly the most restful time of year. The joy of those first peas and lettuces, with other vegetables coming on line, one by one, to be joined by the berries starting with fabulous strawberries. Harvest is not yet overwhelming, everything new is truly appreciated. I too love all of the seasons.