A Beautiful Fall Day

Caramel grazing next to the hay pasture.

 I just wanted to put up a blog post to share with you some photos that I took right here on Clover Creek Farm! It was a beautiful fall day and the leaves hadn't all fallen yet. The mountains were in an array of shades of green, red, orange, and browns. The neighbors (who are our next of kin) had just finished baling their hay. Caramel, our jersey milk cow was out grazing and lazily acknowledged my presence. She could have cared less as I snapped picture after picture. Anyways, here are my favorite pictures. Enjoy!

I thought this picture was a lost cause with the sunlight's glare
but my computer editing program made me see it differently!

Hay. It's cow food!

I think it's worthy of a frame!

A black and white of the scene.

Corn Fields Environmentally Beneficial???

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Well I've been hearing a lot about this business that one acre of corn soaks up 8 tons of harmful greenhouse gas. Excuse me if I'm a little cynical, but according to the World Resources Institute, 20% of nitrogen fertilizer applied to a crop of corn is lost to runoff. Under some conditions, up to 60% can be lost to atmospheric volatilization. I am a big supporter of agriculture, but I think that before you go and make a claim such as this, you should do a little research into the sustainability of mono-culture corn crops. Perhaps this statement is true of organic corn fields that doesn't use nitrogen fixation and strong pesticides. In conclusion, i'm not so sure if the claims that corn farms are good for the environment have any validity. Just my opinion. Comment your opinions below!