Our busy week of planting plods on. It has finally dried up enough to get the tractor in the field and finish getting our beds set up. So now the next couple of days feature planting in earnest. After a couple appointments yesterday morning we were out in the field as a family planting broccoli. it was much easier to plant then the onions and the children were champs at helping. Actually yesterday is exactly what I always wanted farming with children to be like?

Proeun and Two marking the rows on our bed with the seeder. Our farm manager had already come through with the tractor to make beds.

Then Proeun would go through with a piece of 2 X 2 and punch holes for the broccoli. The little transplants fit so well in it! For awhile we would go through and I would have one child put the little broccoli in the hole while the other came along and filled in the hole. Planting went really fast when that went smoothly. There were also a couple of times when Mavis needed my attention and the older 2 were able to take over without me overseeing their work–not bad for 4 and almost 6! When I came back Avril even told me to find something else to work on since she was handling her job just fine.

Even Mavis was getting her share of planting in, though we had to make sure she didn’t pull them out again after planting. The kids really loved being involved and feeling like their work was valued. We we loved having them work side by side with us.

Today though we are giving them a break. They get to spend some quality time with grandma and Proeun and I will go and try to get caught up on the planting. It will be a couple days before I can check in again, but rest assured we are working.