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This is the line that used to be in my resume:
"Solid 20+ years of hand-on experience in software and firmware development.
Generalist, broad background - data networking, telecommunication, real-time
multi-tasking, firmware, network security, database, embedded system, and
instrumentation".
Here is the line of my latest resume:
"5 years in organic apple farming and is still learning"
Yes, more and more, I start to understand the issues of "sustainable farming",
"surviving of small family farm" or "loss of farm land" etc.
A lot of customers ask me "what do you do for a whole year besides of picking
apples?" or"You don't spray as an organic farmer. Do you?"
Every farmer has his/her own "practice" which is based on his/her experience. I
will tell you what is mine and it is an evolving process.
My fields:
12 acres of apple. 8 varieties - Gold delicious, Red delicious, Jonathon, Red gold,
Winesap, Granny Smith, Gala and Arkansas black. Trees are planted in 23' x 24'
rows.
My equipments:
2 working tractors, one 400-gals Spray tank, one 10' mower, 2 handhold weed
eaters, 30 of 20' aluminum irrigation pipes.
My works:
Feb-March: Pruning 900+ trees. It takes average one hour for one tree.
Feb-August:
One spray of Copper Sulfate
Sulfur spray for scab before each rain. This year we spray 4 times (not
enough)
Horticulture oil spraying every 10 days for controlling codling moth starts
from June.
May-September
irrigation with portable irrigation pipes, total 600 feet. Move entire pipe line
twice every day.
May-June: thinning about 900+ trees.
May-September: weed control, mow for every month
September-November: picking
"Solid 20+ years of hand-on experience in software and firmware development.
Generalist, broad background - data networking, telecommunication, real-time
multi-tasking, firmware, network security, database, embedded system, and
instrumentation".
Here is the line of my latest resume:
"5 years in organic apple farming and is still learning"
Yes, more and more, I start to understand the issues of "sustainable farming",
"surviving of small family farm" or "loss of farm land" etc.
A lot of customers ask me "what do you do for a whole year besides of picking
apples?" or"You don't spray as an organic farmer. Do you?"
Every farmer has his/her own "practice" which is based on his/her experience. I
will tell you what is mine and it is an evolving process.
My fields:
12 acres of apple. 8 varieties - Gold delicious, Red delicious, Jonathon, Red gold,
Winesap, Granny Smith, Gala and Arkansas black. Trees are planted in 23' x 24'
rows.
My equipments:
2 working tractors, one 400-gals Spray tank, one 10' mower, 2 handhold weed
eaters, 30 of 20' aluminum irrigation pipes.
My works:
Feb-March: Pruning 900+ trees. It takes average one hour for one tree.
Feb-August:
One spray of Copper Sulfate
Sulfur spray for scab before each rain. This year we spray 4 times (not
enough)
Horticulture oil spraying every 10 days for controlling codling moth starts
from June.
May-September
irrigation with portable irrigation pipes, total 600 feet. Move entire pipe line
twice every day.
May-June: thinning about 900+ trees.
May-September: weed control, mow for every month
September-November: picking
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