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Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options
- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:34:45 -0400 (EDT)
I'd love to see photos of what you're describing!
I have been looking at some of the other tools that folks have listed so
far. Nice to know we have some options, particularly options which don't
involved big outlays of $$$ and doctorates in mechanical engineering. Not
sure which we'll end up with (that toolbar sure would be handy, not only for
digging but also for cultivation work). But I'm very pleased to know that
one way or another, I won't be digging potatoes by hand anymore. Life's
too short!
And I will share a little bit of "the rest of the story". Some folks
will recall that we rent land from, and are being mentored by, a wonderful
elderly farmer whose farm we'd like to buy someday. This year for a
variety of health reasons, he's starting to back off his own farming work, and
he has invited us to rent another parcel of the farm next year. This
expansion into root crops would be part of that. I want to make sure
that if we do take him up on that offer, we have all the pieces in place to do a
really good job of it. It's one thing to ask a landowner if we can work
fallow land. It's a whole 'nuther topic to have him invite us to take over
management of a parcel he had been actively working. An honor and
privilege, and an opportunity to do some additional things we've wanted to try,
but also rather terrifying in terms of living up to that responsibility.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at
frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 8/19/2012 4:56:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
vthick43 AT gmail.com writes:
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[Market-farming] root digger implement options,
KAKerby, 08/18/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Carla Maness, 08/18/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, MAsteveINE, 08/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options,
Mike Brabo, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, charlie taplin, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Richard Stewart, 08/19/2012
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, KAKerby, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Ryan Wood-Beauchamp, 08/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options,
KAKerby, 08/19/2012
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[Market-farming] Plow or plough,
MAsteveINE, 08/19/2012
- [Market-farming] Spice Bush Berry Pricing, Richard Stewart, 08/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Plow or plough,
charlie taplin, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Plow or plough, MAsteveINE, 08/20/2012
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[Market-farming] Plow or plough,
MAsteveINE, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Jay Sleichter, 08/19/2012
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