Growing up in a farming community gave me a solid background in all things “common sense”. From the “battle of the winds” to the “best days for planting”, the Farmers Almanac was consulted with regularity. One thing every sensible farmer understood was, to grow healthy crops, you can’t overwork the soil. Small business entrepreneurs can learn a lot from this age-old practice.
Overworked soil, created by numerous conditions, produced poor crops and lackluster results. For instance, you never planted the same crops in the same fields for two consecutive growing seasons. Wise farmers would farrow fields to ensure nutrients weren’t stripped unnecessarily. For plots planted with regularity, the soil was tilled and amended in between growing seasons to ensure a healthy crop with a high yield during the next field planting.