When we teach what we know to others, we pass the baton. The scion makes a great baton.

The cold weather continues - 27F at 6 AM. Feels a bit more like March than May. In the morning, Cammy and I worked in the nursery, continuing to prep for planting this year’s new grafts. It’s a long job, but it feels great to have our hands back in the soil.

In the afternoon Seamus came over, and he and I topworked together. After a bit of a refresher on grafting and a lesson in bark grafts, we headed down the rows at Finley Lane to graft over several unproductive trees to some of our recent discoveries. It was fun working together. He’s 13 and a quick learner. He asks interesting questions and makes interesting observations. He hadn’t remembered our collies’ names (Spy and Chaga), so he renamed them. (That was a first. Now, like many of our apples, they have synonyms!) Unfortunately, because it’s been so cold, some of the bark is still not slipping that well. We’ll hope for the best.