May 25, 2009

After a tough, rainless week of weeding, building, and working our full-time jobs we were all exhausted when we started farming today. Tons of weeding, scuffling, and raking were just tiring us out even more and the only highlight was some much needed rain.  We saw a few hawks hovering around and after stopping to admire them we quickly realized they were about to come down on the chickens enjoying the free range lifestyle. We needed a break. 

It was 40 time!

After returning to work we had a visitor. His name was Dwight Whitley and he owned some land just up the road on the other side of Hwy 64. John turned on the country and jumped in Dwight's car to go get some pointers about the land. He found out several useful things like where a close enough spring was to pump water, that Dwight owned a tractor, and that Dwight wanted to help us. After Dwight left John told us that he was going to come weed, turn, and re-mound our rows. We didn't realize he was coming RIGHT back. 

Hand scuffling would have cost us about 30 hours of back breaking work for these 5 long rows.
It took Mr Whitley about 10 minutes. He was a serious lift and a lifesaver!