Small hobby farm equipment driver#
A cab on a tractor protects the driver from dust, noise, sun and cold. This equipment is totally oversized for the farm’s needs, but it actually works pretty well and I have to say that having a cab on the tractor is a great thing that I never would have considered before.
A combination of a 6’ Woods rotary mower, a 6’ Woods rototiller, and a 5-shank Schmeiser chisel plow are used to prepare beds for planting. I’ve also added some of the equipment selections to the farm so they may be familiar to regular readers of my articles, although quite a bit of the equipment preceded me so there are a few items that I haven’t yet written about.įor tillage and bed preparation the farm uses a Kubota L5030, which has a cab and front-end loader/front forks (54”center to center on wheels). I helped set up the farm in its current form and chose to have more people working part time instead of just one or two working full time, and that arrangement has worked well for the last three years. Although the businesses are run separately, the restaurant is the sole customer for the farm, buying everything the farm can produce and providing input into the crop selection.Ģ011 is the fourth full season for the farm, which harvests year-round and employs three to four folks three days a week. The farm is owned by the same couple who owns Meriwethers Restaurant in Portland, 12 miles from the farm.
Skyline Farm is located just outside of Portland, Oregon. I don’t want to leave out the smaller farms, though, and one farm I work with that falls into that category is Skyline Farm with about 1.5 acres in mixed vegetables plus small plantings of small grains and dry beans, berries, tree fruit, perennial herbs and cut flowers. In the past few issues, I’ve profiled the equipment choices of three farms from 16 acres to 90 acres.
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