Kent Hamilton checks the early cabbage rows where he watches the first shifts of spring take hold. For Hamilton, the season always begins in the soil, long before most people notice the change.“ This time of year is a new beginning. We’ ve got the previous year behind us. We take what we learned, fix what didn’ t work, and try to make the most perfect crop we can.”
“ This time of year is a new beginning,” he said.“ We’ ve got the previous year behind us. We take what we learned, fix what didn’ t work, and try to make the most perfect crop we can.”
Around him, the broader farming community is waking up too. Tractors reappear on rural roads. Equipment shops get busier. Fertilizer trucks run longer hours. Even people who don’ t farm start working in their yards again.
“ Once springtime comes, people come out,” Hamilton said.“ The whole community kind of comes alive.” For him, early spring is the in-between season— not the rush of harvest and not the quiet of winter. It’ s just the moment when everything starts moving again.
This young cabbage plant is part of the early spring beds Kent Hamilton prepares as the season begins to shift.
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