Has New England been lost to the Ents?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Feral plants swarm across lost farmland: has the lesson of Day of the Triffids been lost on the Americans?

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[nojay.livejournal.com]

My uncles who owned (along with the local bank) a hill farm not far from town swore to me that there was a mother rock under each field that would spit out a fresh crops of stones every spring to be harvested by the plough and that's why I had to pick them up. Later they bought a stone harrow, a large rake-like object they towed behind the Ferguson tractor, dumping piles of stones in the field edges where we loaded them into wire baskets by hand.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I (shame, shame, yes) have been watching the new "My Little Pony" series, and on one episode there's mention of a rock farm. Seems like there is a real-life equivalent.... :)