The Bishopp Family Farm's blog, "The Grass Whisperer," has another sweet tribute to late Schoharie beef farmer David Huse, who died last month in a tractor accident:
A large, skylight provided a mottled scene over my friend’s casket, as I sat in the pew at St. Vincent de Paul’s Church in Cobleskill clutching a little farmscape card with the 23rd psalm on it. I heard and felt the words from the pastor and David’s brothers, all the while looking up at the view of the sky in an attempt to hold in all the emotion I was feeling. It was during the singing of Amazing Grace that I noticed the portal filled with sun, shining through a crystal clear blue sky. My eyes and heart couldn’t hold back the flood, but I just kept thinking, why and why now? And that we don’t need any less independent farmers.
As I move the Huse’s family herd through my farm’s grassland savannah, dense with David’s spirit, trust and teachings, I am realizing the importance of relationships, observation, mentoring and sharing experiences among all people connected with food. I think Dave would have wanted us to sustain this legacy. “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, one clover, and a bee, and revery. The revery alone will do, if bees are few.”—Emily Dickinson
