We planted our first cover crop last week of crimson clover and winter rye on almost an acre and then topped it with straw bales to hold moisture. When we arrived today, we mowed and picked up trash along the road.

The fall foliage really peaked in Staunton this weekend but over the mountains at Saint Andrew’s Forest Farm, the colors were a little more muted with lots of green. Walking through the forest was noisy with the leaves crunching underfoot.

We decided to work on connecting Chanterelle Trail from the North Trail towards the South Trail. We had to cut back through hundreds of small, diseased and dying trees. Many tulip poplar, maples, dogwoods and some pine. We worked our way up and then tied my orange shirt to a tree limb and walked back around from the South Trail to Chanterelle Trail. We were only 15 or 20 yards away! It was here we found a fox den with tracks all around it.