Well, we recently took out yet another loan to pay for our BCS walk-behind tractor and 2 greenhouses. The BCS was delivered on Wednesday, and man is this thing cool! We purchased the rotary-plow attachment and it is pretty amazing! The BCS has an 11hp diesel, which we are running on bio-diesel. Friday, March 13 was the first full day with the BCS and it worked as well as advertised. The rotary plow goes through the soil quite smoothly, although as with any two-wheel tractor the undulations in the ground do make for some sore muscles the next day... This is not your average sissy roto-tiller. The BCS weighs 300 lbs and has a PTO - power take-off - which means that like a 4 wheel tractor, this thing will accept a multitude of implements. It was nice to finally break ground, but it would have been nice to have the tractor a couple weeks ago. After plowing, we let the soil 'rest' for a couple weeks. This helps break-down all of the humus and kills off the grass. The next step will be to run through with the rotary plow again and make raised beds. We should start planting in about 2 weeks! There are already thousands of little seedlings growing and our pace is starting to pickup each week.
