This does bring us to where my mind went this evening.What you mention, my friend, requires a village. We are far from having a village here outside of Washington DC. For example, we offered free Friday passes to the two 'organic' vegetable farms minutes down the road from the conference. This meant they could see hugh courtney, Elaine Ingham and Howard Shaprio...something for everyone. Not one of them showed up. Worse yet, no apologies. ;-)
Would you be better off & more in keeping with threefolding by contracting for chisel or even subsoil tilling of 3' beds. Then get a quality mower to keep the paths & landscape set for work and as Hugh L. saz - feeding worms-.
We here in the Us set such a huge value on purchasing equipment to "do it ourselves".
What do we loose? Who did we fail to bring into our sphere ... .
I find more & more, the contacts born of need as well as synchronicity pay a hundred fold over outlay.
Just a meditation I had.
My experience of hiring custom farmers is to receive a torrent of abuse, usually revolvign around YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!! MY GRANDPAPPY FARMED LIKE THAT, BUT NOW THERE ARE MORE BUGS!! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!! YOU'RE JUST WASTING SOMEONE'S MONEY (actualy quote)
So, yes, I will hire tractors to do some stuff, but I want to know that on that day when a seed bed needs to be made because we're two days past a 5 day rain, and so on, I want to know I can lay it out like magic. All by myself, if that's what it takes.
