“It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
- W.E.B Du Bois
Fearrington Village is home to approximately 30 Belted Galloway cows. These wonderful pets that serve as mascots and friends to our community make all among us smile. We promise to tell you more about them later.
Today is about the Harvest, typically associated with the Fall, but here occurring as needed throughout the Summer and Spring. Adjacent to “Village Way”, one of the two main roads that wind through Fearrington, is a wonderful open field that shifts in hue and shape with the seasons. It is completely left natural and in itself simply, lies peacefully for all who pass and pause.
Two to three times yearly, our farmer, Bob Strowd, like his father before him, plows and reaps the fescue grass that is prominent in that field. As it becomes a lovely orange tinged high hay grass in the warmer months, he wraps and expertly gathers each blade up.
The cows know Bob by the purr of his tractor alone, and as he turns the corner, truck full of hay, harvest of a bright North Carolina afternoon ready, the cows approach, anticipating the sweet bundles. It is a simple thing, one of the many joys that occur throughout the year that surprise and delight us still - and is why we enjoy living in Fearrington!
- Julie & Nathalie are real estate agents for Fitch Creations, Inc., in Fearrington Village.