Honestly, I had mixed feelings about building a house here: I really wanted to live on the farm and have enough room to garden for the rest of my life, but I felt guilty at being one of those people who build a new house on undisturbed land instead of buying an existing home.

I remember it being in corn for many years, but eventually it stopped producing well and the person who was doing the farming turned it to mixed-grass hay production and mowed it once a year, around early July. When I moved here, Hayefield literally was a hayfield, separated from the rest of my parentsвЂ™ farm by intersecting roads. Her request gave me the incentive I needed to work on a post IвЂ™ve been thinking about for the last several weeks: the whole вЂњjoy of the meadowвЂќ thing. In anticipation of the upcoming Earth Day (April 22, 2010), Jan over at Thanks for Today is asking her fellow garden bloggers to post about what theyвЂ™re doing to contribute to a sustainable lifestyle, as part of her Garden Bloggers Sustainable Living Project.

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