Third Week

Although the Gardening Project was not able to do much work on the garden due to inclement weather, this past week was very interesting because of the things we did while away from the garden. Earlier this week, we visited the Glenmalure Farm and were taken on a tour through the farm by the Irish farmer who ran it. He grass fed all of his animals which ranged from pigs to large cattle. He also, allowed them to freely roam as they wished within the boundaries he set for his farm and used various dogs to direct them where he wished them to be. He used Border Collies and a Spanish breed of dogs called Maremmas to ward off coyotes which would attack his smaller animals, sometimes killing up to 40 of them. We also visited the Well Sweep Herb Farm in Northern New Jersey where we took a tour of the wide array of flora which carried various medicinal and fragrant properties. I found it interesting plants could seem so simple but exhibit such a diversity in each type of plant's traits.