Market Farming

[Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>]

Allan,

Did you attend the Southern SAWG conference last year?  One of the tours was
to Shinbone Valley Farm.  That's the spader I helped modify so Ed could
spade and shape beds with one pass, adding nothing to the length of his
spader.  He uses his spader/former inside a 2 acre deer-proof fence on 50'
beds.

We also came up with another add-on that lays tall cover crops over so his
spader can chop them up better.  His farm is on the tour again this year-
may be worth the price of admission to see what he's doing.

Ed & I have joked about marketing the "Kogelschatz/McGregor Bed Former" as
an add-on package to spader owners.  But we figure we'd rather farm than
manufacture.

Alex McGregor
Walden Farm

Allan Balliett wrote:

> I'm using a Celli spader and really need an implement to shape the
> beds behind it. (I assume I'll be doing this in two passes since I'm
> working in a garden. I would think managing a 'train' of implements
> at the end row turn would get very tiring.)
>
> I'm interested in hearing how other people shape their longer raised
> beds (mine are 100 ft long and there are 3 acres of them)