On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards) ,
Joyce Bupp
A soft, subtle fragrance per
meates the house.
(No, not skunk. That one still
wrinkles our noses on occasional
evenings, but at least two of the
local skunk babies have sadly
met their fate on the roads
through the farm).
This far more pleasant scent
drifts steadily across the road
and through the office and
kitchen, nudged by gentle
breezes floating down the hill.
Early morning and late evening
dampness, as well as the show*-
ers that have blessed the neigh
borhood recently, enhance the
delicate perfume.
August aromatherapy. The
fragrance of pollinating corn.
Aromatherapy is very trendy
right now, an emphasis on
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The perfume of pollination
reeks of a crop in the making, of
winter feed for livestock and
grain to market And that’s pret
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ing sensation, vanishing as the
ripe, receptive corn stalks quick
ly brown toward maturity.
More August aromatherapy
has replaced the usual summer
time damp and slightly-mildewy
scent in our old house’s cellar.
Fresh local peaches from a
neighboring orchard are careful
ly laid out side by side in a flat
cardboard box, cushioned with
plastic grocery bags and covered
to hasten their ripening in the
Peaches began ripening earli
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must have picked up extra fla
vor with their speed. They are
absolutely delicious, some of the
sweetest I remember eating in
years. The only “down” side of
earlier peaches is that they may
not stretch out as long into the
fall. Thus, we must concentrate
on gobbling lots of ‘em while
they’re so deliciously available.
Another fruity scent hangs
around a small bush in the back
yard shrub border. Our lone
blueberry bush has failed to
grasp the concept that blueber
ries bear best with a couple of
friends around for pollination. It
went ahead and singlehandedly
populated itself with lots of
berries, which have been ripen
ing over a couple weeks. I refrig
erated several handfuls of these
favorites of The Farmer until
there were enough to create a
really special August
Aromatherapy, the smell of blue
, berry cheesecake baking in the
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also discourage those pesty fruit
flies.
But others hanker after the
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Before I realized last year
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we feed to the heifers
So, the score thus far for this
year: Farmers 1, Mockingbirds
But, the thwarted, noisy bird
is spending more and more time
on the electrical wire above the
garden, where the August aro
matherapy of ripening can
taloupes is drifting upward.
Would mockingbirds eat can
taloupes?
Just in case, I’m encouraging
the presence in the garden of an
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