"Maisie set off toward the pasture as directed by Barney Love, and began walking around the edge of the field, which had been left to lie fallow and regenerate for the next planting. Most farmers adhered to the rotation system of leaving a field untouched and unused for a year before moving in livestock the following year, and in a later year planting a fresh crop in soil well fertilized by a constant supply of manure. It was a means of building resilience in the land, in the same way that a cup of Ovaltine gave the promise of a good night's sleep to a tired human being. Fallow land was rested land, and rested land was hardy."
–– Jacqueline Winspear (b. 1955), British mystery writer
Source: Jacqueline Winspear. A Sunlit Weapon: A Maisie Dobbs Novel. New York: Harper, 2022; p. 122.
via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 44-45.
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