Sketchy weather Saturday morning “down on the farm”. A bit of snow, but that didn’t stop us too much. Neil & I gave the shovels new handles and turned the compost piles. Jenny, Fawn and Tracy cleaned up the “PMS hut”… which I’ll be renaming “farm office” or something! Steve helped with the seedling flats and helped check out old hoses.

Sunday Tracy worked on more seedling flats, and her and Nancy laid out the irrigation header and installed the valve the drip tape attaches to. I spent the entire day on the rototiller, using it to cut the pathways. I’m rototilling the pathways and using a v-blade to push the soil towards each row. Since I want to do no-till, I’m not tilling the actual garden row. For the rows I will be using a broadfork to loosen up the soil as much as possible, and then will add the soil from the paths to create raise beds.

Did you miss the garden work party and really want to help? Next we need a hand with using the broadfork on all the rows and parts of experimental/permaculture perennial garden. Only 5000 – 6000 s.f. total. A good day’s work! Stuck behind a desk, this work will get your going!