April 6, 2012

There is a sad trend happening here with the farms. At least one person farming the fields we do here has started using processed household trash to dump on their fields.They till it into the soil and keeps the heavy clay soil workable.  Some of our best fields now have bits of tin foil, burned bit of aluminum and pieces of plastic yogurt containers. It's really frustrating when you have to dig a dozen pull tabs or bits of aluminum for every old target that we are looking for.  This is what we were contending with today. Though the landowner has given us permission to detect these fields, he leases some of the land to someone else to farm.  This is the farmer who has chosen to ruin these fields with the "trash" fertilizer.  The same farmer decided today that he had to spray the two fields that we were detecting in this morning, effectively forcing us to leave. The landowner says he cannot control the guys farming practices.  Fortunately, we have many more fields to choose from each day.  Clarence found his first hammie of the week today.  You still cannot tell which one it is but we suspect a Lizzie*. Sarah got a beautiful Lizzie hammie that looks like it was lost right after being struck.  Ron also found another Lizzie hammie.   I found a hammered copper coin called a rose farthng.  It is a tiny little guy.  Mike found another hammie bringing his total to seven.

Pedometer reading: 15,756 steps equal to 6.96 miles
*see Glossary below