The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 87

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 87 of a new and different world. We were working very late last night drawing in our baled hay into the barn and we have a little bit more to do this morning and The Mindful Farmer is in a very grateful frame of mind, grateful for the dry weather to enable us to do the harvest, grateful to all the people who have helped along the way from the person who mowed it, turned it twice daily for 5 days (Chris), the man who rolled and baled it and all the lads who helped draw it in until late last night. It was just like the old days back in West Limerick with plenty of people helping but the machinery nowadays can do in a week what took us 8 weeks back then. It is still a very nostalgic time for me and the smell of fresh sweet scented meadow hay is never far away from my nostrils and happy dreams and thoughts. So this morning I am going to mindfully pray for all these people who helped me so generously in the past week and also thank Mother Earth for producing the crop and offers annual ground for harvest and thank her also for the gift of life so that we can walk on her soil in the shade of the glistening galaxies. Let us salute her silence and her certainty and her sublime stillness and let her dreams fill all our hearts with joy. Bless our harvest and the harvest of all farmers and thank God and the humility of Mother Earth. It transfigures all. My heart is joyous and full.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick