New Pond for Irrigation!

The owner of the land that we lease decided to put a pond on site to create some wildlife habitat, and he is ever so gracious to allow us the enormous benefit of using the pond to irrigate this season. With bulldozers and excavators digging near space we plan to plant on this season, Jacob has spent the past four days at the farm from dawn until evening guarding the fields from the possibility of soil compaction from the machinery. We plan on reducing tractor and fossil-fuel use this season by switching to more intensive “square-foot” gardening instead of planting in straight rows. This will help minimize soil compaction and free up more soil space for plants. One wrong turn in the field by an excavator would compact the soil with the 100 times the weight of our sub-compact Kubota. The pond is now finished, the fields are all safe and we can look forward to readily available water for the season. What a luxury!  

20 feet deep in some areas! Yikes!