Getting started

This post is not going to do justice to all the preparation work that was needed to set up the Gerbera Farm. An area was selected behind the stables, and the ground work was started. The two menfolk supervised the leveling of the ground with a grader, and started researching irrigation, and all the materials and equipment that we needed to set up.

I often wonder if we'd known at the time how time consuming and expensive it all would be, if we would have gone ahead and done it.

We had a meeting of the four of us - and thought we had considered everything that needed to be researched. However, each week, there was more to learn, more money to spend.

In the end we spent far less than was in the material that we received from the industry papers. If we'd have seen those figures we'd have bailed out early. We were lucky - with the two guys willing and able to do a lot of the work themselves, plus an odd set of extraordinary luck, we did it all with less money than the experts predicted.