After the mishap on Day 46, I will stop at my Cousin's farm for a few days. I am finishing my bike tour. It is over for now. I will travel in the East Coast for a few days before heading home to the San Francisco Bay Area.
I spent two days at my cousin, Gabe's, farm - Cold Spring Ranch - in North New Portland, Maine. Yes, it seems strange that a kid from Berkeley, California would choose to farm, let alone farm in Maine, but that's what's happening. He sells good Beef, natural Beef, that would be considered organic.
View of the house and barn from the stream that leads to the nearby lake.
The cows following us through to the next pasture. Gabe led them, I wasn't too comfortable with the cows because of the flies. Oh the flies!
Here's Gabe waiting for the last cows. They have just entered a new pasture and the grass is nice. So they don't travel very fast, stopping frequently to sample the new grass. They might be saying ",Oh boy! Oh boy! New grass!" In Gabe's hand is a bucket of grass cube treats for the cows. The cows are generally clueless about what is in Gabe's hand, but if you feed the first cow, the rest of the cows will follow. That first cow, by the way, is named "Donut" for it's love of fatty, fluffy pastries, with a hole in the middle.
Do the cows destroy the Dutch Elm? No, in fact, the Dutch Elm is doing just fine. It is separated from the other trees and seems healthy. The leaves don't seem wilty and yellow.
Gabe has wonderful farm that he is bringing it back to its former glory. I like it's classic Maine farm look. The house and the barn form an "L", the house is painted white, the grass is moved around the house, there is a small vegetable garden near the house. Classic.
Sunbleached white farmhouse walls.
The neighbor from "Procrastination Camp" stopped by to pick up some of Gabe's beef that he had purchased. I commented that the weather was wonderful. It had been foggy in the valley in the morning, but after the fog burned off it was 70 degrees and there was a light breeze. The neighbor said it would get better in a couple of weeks. How better could it get? Do the dancing wood nymphs and wild turkeys come out in a couple of weeks?
The farmhouse - front side.
Farmhouse - backside.
