Better than the beach for Spring Break
Ian Foertch, home for Spring Break from Sterling College in Vermont, will return this summer for his second season as a farmhand. He is getting a head start this week by taking a training intensive on the operation of a diverse assortment of farm machinery, from auto-seeders to cultivating tractors.
Here, he is spreading lettuce seed over the vacuum holes on the seeder plate of an auto-seeder (Editor's Note: Something like this, I think). When all the vacuum holes have grabbed a seed, he will carefully pour off the excess, then flip the plate over soil blocks. When he shuts off the vacuum the seeds will fall precisely into place in the center of the soil blocks. He will then use a dowel to set the seeds to the proper depth, and finish by pinching a small amount of soil over them.
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