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Favorite Homestead/Country Scents (What Are Yours?)

 
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What are some of your favorite scents from around the homestead or that you associate with rural/country life?

I'll start with one of mine:

The still-smoldering remnants of a previous day's stump fire being rained out.

Don't be naive about the nature of life on Earth.

 
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Sweet clover is high on my list.

So much so that I chop up and dry entire plants -- the scent is all through the plant, not just in the flowers.

When I build the Taj Mahal of outhouses, one element in "pleasantness" will be dried sweet clover tossed down the hole -- when exposed to moisture, the scent is released.
 
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Tomato foliage when you brush past the plants. That sharp green smell is completely unique. Also rain hitting dry soil after a long dry spell in summer, nothing quite like it.

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Rain…any time…any place.

The First Axiom of Life: Don’t do dumb things.

 
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two days after being cut, hay at it’s sweetest smell
 
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Favorite country scent is the nose of a horse. I wish I had one. Maybe someday. If my ship ever comes in....

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Aromatic Cedar and freshly ripped White Pine.
 
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Rosemary and Sweet Alyssum for outside.

Orange for inside.

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Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner

 
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Wet bracken in late summer and mature woodlands

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My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "

 
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The very start of a rainfall in the heat of summer.
 
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