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Warmer, drier, and time to harvest.
The arrival of summer means warmer temperatures, which seem to last throughout the night now. Winter hasn’t quite given up entirely yet, and sporadically reminds us of its presence with a couple of isolated drops of rain and gusts of cool wind. The flowers are still around but not as great as at the beginning of September.
Sheep have been sheared, and the farm and the nature reserve are getting ready for the summer heat. But before we can slow and settle down with a gin and tonic on the stoep, our farmers have their work cut out: wheat, canola, triticale, and oats need to be harvested and baled – all 840, 210, 150, and 100 hectares of them, respectively. That’s almost 850 big pack bales!
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