peat-storing

Updated: May 2, 2025

So that good store of roots and hay continue for the cattle during those months of early spring while yet the Moor is barren; so that the potato-patch prospers and the oats ripen well; so that neither pony nor bullock is lost in the shaking bogs, and late summer is dry enough to allow of ample peat-storing when all these conditions prevail, your moorman counts his year a fat one.

Eden Phillpotts - Children of the Mist