Grand plans for the year - farming!

This year, I will learn more about growing things (and about cows and chickens!) than I could have in five years finding time to garden around a full-time office job. I'm doing a full-season internship at Squash Blossom Farm in Oronoco.

I'll start the last week in April. To try to make good use of the next two months (rather than just actively wait for them to be over), I plan to:

• Go to the gym a lot and try to make muscles happen.
• Read a lot about permaculture.
• Read a lot about taking care of chickens.
• Read a lot about taking care of cows.
• Practice baking pies (so far, pies have given me a very, very hard time).
• Start my own seeds inside and scale back my yard-transformation plans a bit.

It's impossible to properly convey my excitement about this.