The Market is Open

This is the year- the year I finally figure out this farming endeavor. My records are going to be better, my planning is going to be more realistic, and my goals are going to be more in line with what I really can do.
I am lining up what I do with the experts in market gardening and really trying to understand how to farm more efficiently, effectively, and more profitably. Take the carrots I planted yesterday: The books tell me to plant them 6 inches apart and spaced 1 1//4 inches apart. That would give me about 3500 seeds to plant. However, I have been broadcast seeding my carrot seeds in my raised beds and yesterday I used 15,000 seeds instead of 3500. I used 77% more seeds. Now to figure out if I am really getting that many carrots come up in my system? I don’t really know, as I have not kept great records. I am still in the “Oh my gosh, aren’t they pretty” stage of farming. Now I have figured out I can grow them- now I need to figure out the dollars and sense of growing carrots. What does it really cost me, what are my processing/cleaning/Transporting costs?
So that is where my mind is this season. Trying to now narrow down how to be more efficient, grow more food for our community and improve the farming systems I have in place.
Hannah will be running the market this week, as I run down to get Ray from the Airport.
See you Friday,
Angela