Drover’s Way Farm was ice locked. The tracks down the driveway led to roads that were ‘shear ice,’ as it is called in Eastern Ontario, where the author lives. Storms come in many forms on a farm. Often, we think of weather storms of snow, rain, wind, and hail. There can also be storms of disease and storms of circumstance. One doesn’t need to live on a farm to realize that the proverbial ‘perfect storm’ can happen when, seemingly, all difficult sues that could happen occur at the same time. The difference, perhaps, on a farm is that there is a responsibility for many lives, including humans, animals and vegetation. To make matters more complicated, climate change is creating environmental conditions with unprecedented, severe storms. As farmers, we can’t control…
