THE SCALE-UP
My partner Geoff and I came away from this meeting at Yanget stunned. The Spelt Project had gone from garden to farm scale
within the space of a few hours. The seed requirements had just jumped from 10kgs to half a tonne, and it occurred to me I
might have to down garden implements and learn how to drive a tractor.
Bill stills thinks in terms of the old wheat sacks which weighed 180 pounds, or roughly 85kgs. Half a tonne becomes imaginable
if you think of it in terms of six or seven wheat sacks. I rang up my seed source and got the good news that he had enjoyed a
spectacularly successful growing season and could consider selling me half a tonne of seed.
The scale-up of tools led naturally to Geoff and I buying a tractor as our contribution to the whole Yanget growing program and
as a … hell, when it comes down to it, who doesn’t want to buy a tractor?
Thus we strayed like lambs into the world of farming.
Bill Kerr
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Bill and Geoff inspect the
International 786