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  • From: Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland <rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm>
  • To: Market Farming Community Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Market-farming] planting calendar wish AND mapping tool wish
  • Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 18:57:01 -0400



Thanks so much to everyone who responded.  I did start a spreadsheet (Beth & Alison, thanks for great ideas) and will also review the beta cropplanner and Dan Kaplan's spreadsheet planner.  (Love knowing that he's just up the road from my old MA haunts.)    I'd so much rather though be outside weeding/planting/etc. than inside doing data entry.  We (organic farmers in Dominica) are currently exploring developing a PGS (Participatory Guarantee System) with a local label and I'm hopeful the lesser record keeping burden that will be required might be met by the (nested) spreadsheets.

And Carla, I'm with you about finding a good way to map over time.  Our land is mountainside and has many natural features that make regular bed shapes a fantasy.  Add that to our multi-planting season and our (too) highly diversified plantings and it is a logistic nightmare.  I have started cutting up and using those cheap window blind slats as markers (thanks to hint on list) and now leave them in the ground after harvest for a few rotations so the info. (e.g., variety, planting date) is right on site.  

Best wishes to all,

Karen


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