Soil Samples!

Soil samples from our fields. We are having them tested for nutrient levels in the big city at Pacific Soil Analysis Inc. to see if we have any deficiencies and to see what crops would be most suitable mmmmm, crops.  

Cover Crop's in the ground.

We seeded our cover crop a few days ago, it feels a little late, but my sources tell me it should still have time to take... We used a mix of mostly fall rye, some winter peas and a very small amount of hairy vetch. This mix is suppose to out-compete weeds, prevent erosion and nutrients from leaching out of the soil, and fix nitrogen. 

Putting in the first line

Here's Delaney breaking the first line on one of of fields with the BCS. The ground was really hard to break because it had such a thick sod root mass from years of hay production, but the Berta plow did the job...