Chicory

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