This year Skye and I have transplanted and direct seeded the acreage, as well as tilling, brush cutting, laying drip line and setting up various irrigation scenarios, burying plastic or spreading straw mulch, cutting holes in plastic, trellising peas, cucumbers, and tomatoes, hand and hoe weeding, putting up additional fencing, taking our 1st two hogs to market, managing a variety of livestock breeds, milking a goat, collecting and washing eggs, composing e-newsletters, packing CSA boxes and delivering to five location every Thursday, vending at farmer's markets periodically, canning and preserving spring vegetables, landscaping and planting trees, ....and likely a handful of other projects I missed mentioning.

It has been an amazing year!  It feels so good to be working our land and notice that the overall soil health has improved tremendously.  Our commitment as organic farmers and responsible stewards to improve the soil has amounted to a noticeably better texture, tilth, and increased biodiversity of a natural ecosystem that is rewarding to have our hands in and interact with every day. Insect pressure is noticeably different and the types and density of weeds lessen and change.  Increased fertility is evident in both the quantity and quality of the produce.  

It is a very rewarding to experience the evolution and transformation of our land in these ways.  Every little thing we do to help our farm along the way through old school organic traditions and new age wave of thought bringing us back to the land, has helped insure the economic sustainability and food producing potential from our farm for local communities for the long run.  Now that is something I can kick my feet back at the end of the day and smile about.  It is a good life!