It’s a great time of the year when rice harvest begins. One of our favorite parts of harvest is the aroma of a freshly-harvested rice field. Maybe it has something to do with the bran or bran oil on the rice grain where the aroma is released in part by the harvest process. Whatever it is, it is earthy with a mildly sweet overtone. At least to many, the aroma is comforting. Have you driven the backroads at rice harvest time, rolled down a window and breathed in the sweet smell of harvested rice?
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Pictured here are two photos, one of a goat about to give birth to a kid on a portion of the Conservancy’s preserves that benefit Swainson’s hawk. The hawks have migrated now, so the field’s vacant state was recently enlivened when this newborn made its introduction to life on Earth. …