12/16/2025
A major issue for local farms with field crops is people driving, a.k.a. trespassing, across the fields. Usually it is because they are looking for moose antler sheds, or because they are poaching. The tire tracks push the Frost line lower than the rest of the field at best. At worst, the dingdongs do it when the field is soft and they often do it across the field, making ruts. So as you drive the tractor down the field, you have to gear down and prepare for the bump on every single pass with the tractor. Usually cussing every time you have to gear down. And those ruts stay there forever sometimes. You have to completely redo the field in order to get rid of those ruts. That means you have to take the field almost completely out of production for the year in order to redo it. It is positively infuriating. It is very hard to mark your field with no trespassing signs every so many feet that the law requires as that means you have to put a permanent post in in order for the sign to survive the weather. Not something you want to do in a Hay Field.
This fall, we started taking the little trees that we had been mowing down to prevent second growth and moving them to create a new fence line along an open area where people have started driving into the fields. It looks like the little trees are going to live. The native spruce trees have kind of a shallow root system, and I wasn’t sure they would make it. But I think since they have not turned brown that they are going to be OK?? Anyone with any further information on transplanting native spruce would be appreciated. I think that transplanting is best done in the spring and fall??
The neighbors field is for sale and likely will be divided many times in the process of the sale. So I am betting they’re going to be a lot of people driving down this road when we never had traffic here before. Pray for good neighbors that keep things clean and pretty. Currently, we have excellent neighbors all around and I am grateful for that.
