Cichorium intybus
Being out on the farm, you get to experience a lot of beauty in places you might not otherwise look. All summer we have been admiring the chicory blooms. Aside from its beauty, chicory is an amazing plant. It is a valuable forage for sheep, cattle and honeybees, and humans have used the root as a coffee substitute.
Here's to you chicory:
Deep roots carry here through the cold of wintertime
Spring timely arrives and opens her to the sun
Rainstorms sweetly bring out her bloom of beauty blue
Queen of the pasture
there is none other like her
Sky above so blue
is a reflection of her bloom
Queen of the pasture
Queen of the pasture
May you bloom and bloom forever
When the days fall so short
Frost welcomes her in the ground
Her death is sleep
But she will soon bloom again
DANIEL
