May, like March, has come in like - well, an ocelot, if not a lion. Our cool temperatures haven’t stopped our work here on the farm, though. With the invaluable help of longtime volunteer Kat Kosmo, we’ve been busying ourselves at gardening, preparing for our summer farm-to-table program, known as HARVEST. Cold-tolerating seeds such as snow peas and cukes went in today, and we have a large number of seedlings, started indoors, ready to go in the ground as soon as we can count on 50-degree or higher temps. We hope that will be soon.

​​As warm weather begins to creep in at last, many of us are trying to spend a little more time outside. This is a great chance to practice thinking like a horse… Otherwise known as living mindfully. Horses are prey animals, and as a result they’re extremely observant regarding their surroundings. Danger might approach from any direction, and because their primary defense is flight, they’re always ready to depart at high speed. As a result, they have a very high degree of what’s called situational awareness - at least, as it pertains to equines. Situational awareness varies depending on what you’re doing, of course. The situational awareness required by a pilot, or a soldier, is rather different from that required by a horse in a pasture. But the basis - being aware of what’s happening around you - is the same, and horses have been employing it for millions of years as a means of survival.