It's been a week of sunshine.  Zucchini's almost a foot tall and flowering undering the row covers and low tunnels that Dubois have been helping us with.  Spinach is looking good, as well as the kale.  Beans are slowly coming, and I have been planting all week long.

Everything takes time.  To get the land ready to plant, first I have to bust up the soil with the chisel plow .  Then I loosen the soil further with the tiller.  Finally I pass through the soil with the 2550 Plastic Mulch Layer, wh...
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As a farmer, I have seen this before.  Rain almost every day in April.  Not a farmer's favourite, for sure.  Usually, the guys are out planting, or at least turning up the soil, by April 15th.  Not this year.  Last month I tried.  The soil was still frozen.

Been planting  just under 20,000 strawberries this week in cold, wet soil.  Sun is supposed to stay this week, and I start planting the cold crops today.  Hopefully we'll be ready to launch first week of June.  We'll see.  That's just how i...
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Planting 20 acres of produce can be an overwhelming task.  It almost makes putting in 19,000 strawberry bushes seem  easy. 

To plant this year's all-natural produce, we have to get the soil ready, organize all the seed, get the planter ready, attach the right seed rollers, mark the fields with the right markers, and then hope for great weather to do so.  This is our first year planting produce. 

Usually I buy my seed in tons, load it into the seed drill or corn planter and just plant.  Rather...
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