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Friday Farm Day with Rain

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About .6 inches of rainfall since last Tuesday at SAFF.
Diospyros virginiana, American persimmon, Keener cultivar pushing through the graft successfully along the main driveway up top.
Looking towards Fern Trail with some quartz the bear moved last year looking for a meal.
The connecting road we just built to the old farm road.

We were happy to see everything really good and soaked yesterday. Even up top, enough rain was falling that the ground wasn’t just absorbing it all right away.

We are seeing evidence that we have a bear around the farm again this year as old tree stumps are being dug up all over.

Monotropa uniflora, ghost pipes, emerging on the north side of SAFF.
We’ve named the old farm road Neal Peterson Parkway in honor of Mahatma Pawpaw who inspires us with his dedication to Asimina triloba.
The larger fern is Ebony spleenwort which is nice but it’s the bright green fern like moss that is so stunning. Thuidium delicatulum, delicate fern moss.
The pawpaw seedling on the left is one we planted last year and this year it has another pawpaw seedling coming up next to it. We think it’s a rootsucker from the clonal colony across the waterway. We will care for this new one like the other.
Two pawpaw seedlings coming up on our trail through the Seedling Orchard. We think some seeds we spread two years ago must have washed down near the waterway.
Wild potato vine, Ipomoea pandurata, along Neal Peterson Parkway near the culvert.
The reddish maroon flower stalks of the Cranefly orchid are emerging. Hard to see.
The American hog peanuts all over are flowering and you can see how they spread out with their long stalk sending seeds a foot away. It’s a legume with the sweet pink flower.

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