By Winslow Homer
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I am loving this so hard. But I have questions…what is the story of that chicken coop???
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Straw bale coop?
I was thinking his ladder technique looked a bit precarious!
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I thought it was a hayrick - a thatched roof in a field for storing hay under it, sometimes with the hay on a raised platform. But when zooming in, I now see there is a lean-to roof to the left side. Could that be for nesting boxes while the chickens can also go under the hay, presuming the hay is raised on a platform?
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Homer was living in NY at the time and moved to rural scenes following his many works depicting the Civil War. His seascapes and boating work followed a few years later, as well as his famous watercolors of the Adirondacks, Maine, Florida and the Bahamas.
I wonder what scions the young man was grafting? Roxbury Russett? Esopus Spitzenberg? Newton Pippin?
I love that he may have been grafting some of the same apples we are… over 150 years later.
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A ‘friend’ from back on the early GardenWeb days (1990s) recounted watching her grandfather grafting apples as a child. He tied his grafts with raffia twine and carried a coffee can of fresh, soupy dairy cow manure that he slathered over the grafts with a wooden paddle as a graft sealant.
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