All of a sudden, it feels like things are really starting to get rolling pretty damn fast. A couple of days ago we started staking off the market garden in the new field, and got some seed potatoes in (as you can see from the pictures). In the last two days we finished stringing the wire for the fence extension (the field had been used as pasture in previous years, so the fence wasn't high enough to keep deer out) and getting it all tightened. The irrigation line is in place in bare bones form, so we'll just need to add more connections coming off it as we get plants in the ground. The spinach is going in today to keep the taters company, and Devin has a crop rotation plan pretty much totally mapped out now, so the rest of will gradually get dropped into various slots. Yesterday was the first twelve hour day, and I think that's pretty much how it's gonna be from now to the foreseeable future. I am stoked! I feel really lucky that we get to be a part of a solid, established farm, but that we are getting to be a part of putting in a new garden and adding new animals (pigs! coming soon!), because it's a good chance to learn every step of the process without it being too crazy intimidating. So, yeah, stuff is pretty totally rad. I will take more pictures of the garden as we get it staked off and planted in and as it starts to look a bit more like something besides a giant rectangle of dirt. other than the directly farming related projects, I am about to start building a matched set of side tables for Alex and Judi (which will be both lucrative and fun, and which has given me an excuse to buy a dovetail jig, which i am max excited about), and it looks like I'll be finishing framing out the windows in the workshop, shingling our house, and putting in a set of french doors (Devin will prolly work with me on the latter three endeavors, depending on how crazy busy he is).
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