It’s been 17 years since I lived on a farm.

I grew up on two farms… the first was 12 acres with forests, ponds, a river and lots of animals. I have memories of wandering into the woods by myself (or with whatever curious horse or adventurous cat felt like tagging along) as a child of under ten, and discovering. Plants, animals, and my own senses. Before I knew how to conceptualise them in such terms, I learned of lifecycles, seasonality, ecosystems, soil structures. Nature became a source of innumerable observations that wove themselves together in the mind of a child, to the point that they lost the status of having been learned, but were simply innate knowledge.