Thank you for your kind responses.
I'll try to give you some details. I live in Madrid, in the center of Spain.
> Are you in a rocky environment, or do you have deep, fertile soil?
It is a conventionally fertilised soil (suposely deep and fertile "enough"
acordingly conventional growers), irrigated from a near river trhough a
channel
(you must ask for water every time you need it).
> What is your rainfall pattern throughout the year?
It s a continental climate (dry and hot summers and wet and cold winters),
but
as already said, I can irrigate when necesary (all the surroundings are
comercially and conventionally market gardens, but very few os them are
biological or ecological)
> What crops do you find suited to your conditions?
>Potatos, corn and garden vegetables? Have you tried
>cut flowers for the floral trade?
I'll try a wide variety of them, including cut flowers.
>Are you close enough to New York City to truck your
> crops in?
Well, not indeed :-) but I hope Madrid will be a good substitute (3 millions
people at 30 Km).
>And do you use mechanized equipment or just garden with hand
> tools?
Only hand tools, and the land is 9800 square meters, or just a bit less than
2,5 acres at 10 minutes car or 30 minutes bike from my home because I didn't
find anything closer.
I am thinking where to build a wood house/greenhouse/henhouse and where to
locate the rest of things. My question is where to locate it, close to the
way,
in the middle or at the bottom of it.