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 simple really. The whole transition from cash crops to all-natural produce has been a huge shift. I am rading as much as I can to cope with the new way of farming.  I am still trying to figure out how to farm organically.  I am still looking for ways to naturally fight the bugs, the disease, the birds.  All this is a huge learning curve. 

Happily people keep coming along to help, like Walter Pingle, from Pingle Farms, who patiently gave me tip after tip in how to lay the mulch plastic down for the strawberries, how to use a board marked with foot lengths so the planting was uniform,  how to ensure that the irrigation was put in right.
 People are just plain kind. Between this hard working team I have working with me, and the kindness of neighbours, somehow we are getting the job done.  Now back to the fields....