O’Neill: Slotting new starts into odd-length beds is a constant, engaging puzzle

Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.

I play the planting game puzzle every week, figuring out where the starts in the propagation house are going to go. I walk the gardens on the weekend, making a list of tasks for the upcoming week, noting which beds are finishing out and are ready to be flipped. We sow seeds every two weeks like clockwork, a baseline production curve that drives the farm forward at maximum capacity for our small footprint.