Tough Days at the Howdy Farm

Well folks, it has been a tough couple of days at the farm. The last couple of weeks had been going well with us making some more headway into our construction project and we were beginning to lay down our irrigation system when things took a turn for the worse. Sunday night we had a big storm come through College Station and it has essentially revealed that our location is basically a small swamp. Because the farm location is on a small slope, it looks like all the water from our irrigation elsewhere has been flowing subsurface into our chosen location. This fact was not revealed until we had started into our project and got a big rain. As of now we're looking at having to seriously redefine our vision for this space. It is still salvageable, it is just going to require a good deal more time and money than we previously thought. But this is the nature of farming, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. I'll be sure to keep you all updated with how our project progresses from here but in the mean time we have begun work on revitalizing a different bed while our other one dries out some. Until next week!