{the season for gathering in agricultural crops}
We, along with thousands of others in the Green Mountains of Vermont, have just gathered the last of our crops for the 2016 agriculture season. For some, the final picking was tomatoes, corn, or pumpkins; for others, they were harvesting bushels of apples. My husband and I have just completed our tenth season of honey harvesting. We have come a long way since our first harvest in 2007. One colony of honey bees provided one fun evening; friends came to help us with the honey extraction. We spun out ten frames of honey on a borrowed hand-cranked honey extractor. It was EXCITING. Fast-forward ten years — we spend weeks spinning out thousands of honey-laden frames, ours and fellow beekeepers that use our honey.
A nice way to wrap up this labor intensive time, for us and other farmers in the vicinity of the Spear's Corner Store, is to gather as a community at the "East Charlotte Tractor Parade". Nearly three thousand Vermonters come out to watch the slow-paced procession of over one hundred tractors parade down Spear street.
What I find extra special about this rural entertainment is that they let folks like us participate in the tractor parade. We don't have a powerful diesel engine tractor with massive chunky tires or any other agricultural/farm tractor.
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| Photo Credit: Scott Wilson |
Nope! We have a Cub Cadet LAWN TRACTOR! And each year, my beekeeper husband sets out to build a beekeeping-themed float, which he pulls behind his 'lil tractor. He humbly straddles his seat, taking his place behind all the big tractors, smiling at the parade watchers while he trundles along.
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| Photo Credit: Hannah Smith |
All the while, I'm on the green in front of Spear's Corner Store, working our honey booth along with the other vendors that have been invited to participate. It's a great time to visit with friends that stop by and meet new folks.
However, each year I try to steal away from the Heavenly Honey Apiary booth just in time to see my hubby's tractor drive by and snap a picture of him as he's pumping out smoke toward the crowds with his beehive smoker.
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| Photo credit: Hannah Smith |
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