Starting from the beginning

This is the beginning of The Birds and the Beans.  Although the four of us have experience in working for many types of farms and growing plenty of plants and animals, starting our own farm has been nothing but new experiences--from creating a business to ploughing up new ground to starting transplants.  It seems that every task is loaded with uncertainty, and there is little more to do than put our best guess forward.  Thankfully (or hopefully), the cumulative knowledge of four intelligent agriculturalists is a very good guess. 

Up until now, it has been a lot of planning—planning how much money we can spend, how many squash to plant, how many chickens to raise, and the like.  But thankfully the weather is warming up, and we are glad to have fewer meetings and get outside to do some work.  We’ve ploughed a portion of the field, started some transplants, and are eagerly waiting for the arrival of our first batch of chicks. 

This is John, ploughing the field.

 

This is the field after ploughing.  It doesn't look like much right now, but can you see the potential?  It should be about a month or so until we can make beds and get our transplants in the ground.