Landmines

I made a brief appearance at the Farm yesterday. I was in Conrad to open up a business checking account after getting the okay from the Secretary of State's Business Services Division on the creation of the actual business. I was a bit worried since I've been jumping all over the place in this process of starting the farm - buying seeds, then filing with the state to start a business, then preparing the greenhouse, then searching for financing, etc. I'd been telling everybody the Farm's name, bought the URL, and set up the website before the State said the Farm's name was okay. I'm not following any logical order in all this since each step takes some time. While I'm waiting for one thing, I start the next, so before I actually had a legitimate business or start-up capital, I'd already bought seed, started working on the greenhouse, and built a website (I still don't have start-up capital).

I just ordered a pallet of organic potting soil from Peaco out of Big Arm, Montana. Within one week, I will finally begin to plant in the greenhouse, which is a bit later than I'd like, but unfortunately I'm in Missoula through the weekend to wrap things up.

Anyway, I was at the Farm briefly and since there wasn't much new to shoot, I took this photo of a cow-pie littered field of barley stubble. This is where I will be planting emmer wheat (an ancient variety) and lentils. I couldn't help myself since I can't quite believe this will be greening up in just a few short months.