How to make the best of it
Time is not on our side. Sometimes the biggest obstacle to having a successful something is having the time to do it. Especially that means having the time to prepare everything ahead of time so that the project is lined up.
Spending the last few weeks on the farm has been great, seeing how it works, getting a sense of the work. At the same time I can't help but turn on critical-me, analyzing every detail, resource, practice, and priority to understand what would make a better. Starting a farm from scratch is hard work. No matter how grand your vision is, you have to rein in many of the best hopes in favor of survival. Need places strictures on the final form that we would never had imagined.
Okay, the gist is, seeing how this farm works has been great. At this point, I can see the next important step in making a decision about how to run the farm would involve visiting many, many farms to see how they work, taking note of all of the little procedures they have in place to accomplish the work of the operation, from watering, feeding, tools storage, even order of actions--which chores do you do first, last, in parallel. Another great thing would be when looking at the farms to take note of the technology the farmers employ. Does someone have an apparatus that serves water to chickens and turkeys, but without getting dirty. I'm sure such a thing exists.
Down in the garden, Mike has shown me a variety of tools that he has acquired over the past few years to garden. He had three or four different kinds of long handled weeding tools. His philosophy of weeding is one of disrupting the weed seeds while they are still barely visible, if at all. It's not about pulling them out by the roots. That's time-consuming and counterproductive when most everything is built up on clods of sod. What a field.
Spending the last few weeks on the farm has been great, seeing how it works, getting a sense of the work. At the same time I can't help but turn on critical-me, analyzing every detail, resource, practice, and priority to understand what would make a better. Starting a farm from scratch is hard work. No matter how grand your vision is, you have to rein in many of the best hopes in favor of survival. Need places strictures on the final form that we would never had imagined.
Okay, the gist is, seeing how this farm works has been great. At this point, I can see the next important step in making a decision about how to run the farm would involve visiting many, many farms to see how they work, taking note of all of the little procedures they have in place to accomplish the work of the operation, from watering, feeding, tools storage, even order of actions--which chores do you do first, last, in parallel. Another great thing would be when looking at the farms to take note of the technology the farmers employ. Does someone have an apparatus that serves water to chickens and turkeys, but without getting dirty. I'm sure such a thing exists.
Down in the garden, Mike has shown me a variety of tools that he has acquired over the past few years to garden. He had three or four different kinds of long handled weeding tools. His philosophy of weeding is one of disrupting the weed seeds while they are still barely visible, if at all. It's not about pulling them out by the roots. That's time-consuming and counterproductive when most everything is built up on clods of sod. What a field.
Comments