- Spring has sprung and rejuvenated Jeremy's farming the unfarmed idea, as he takes on multiple new projects to try and turn a profit from his unused land.. And there are some one week old arrivals to the farm to lift everyone's spirits.
- It is early April and spring has arrived. The bees are back in action and there is hope all around.
Jeremy decides to plant mustard on a small patch of Unfarmed land. He can sell the mustard in the farm shop, and in the burger van as an accompaniment to the pork. Jeremy believes one small patch will generate 40,000 jars of mustard.
Jeremy attempts to produce nettle soup for the farm shop as the woods were carpeted with them. Jeremy gets Lucca the resident farm shop hand, and occasional cook to make a batch. The soup is delicious and even Kaleb approves of it. Jeremy gets a tea harvesting machine to harvest nettle from the woods. But the machine harvests everything. To get pure nettle, Jeremy has to pay kids 8.5 pounds an hour, to harvest them by hand. To make 200 jars, he has to spend 38 pounds on butter, 77 on cream, potatoes 6.40, stock 67 pounds, containers 120, labor 50 pounds (this is the part that blows up later). The soup itself will sell for 5 pounds per jar. Jeremy abandons it as it isn't profitable. As per the final expenses the soup has to be sold for 10 pounds per jar to make any profit at all, plus they only have a 3-day shelf life. Even though only 80 jars were produced, but not enough are sold, before they have to be thrown away.
Jeremy tells Charlie that mushrooms sell for 24 pounds a kilo. They grow in 2 weeks. And a single batch of 200 mushroom growth bags, with 3 crops of mushrooms will give a combined profit of 8000 pounds in a matter of 6-8 weeks. Equipment like fans, lights and water supplies will cost 500 pounds. Charlie says that Jeremy does not have electricity to power the devices. Furthermore, he converts an underground bunker into a mushroom growing facility. Alan, the builder, promises to fix up the bunker for less than 10,000 pounds in less than a week.
The bunker is ready, and Jeremy receives the first batch of 200 mushroom growth bags. Jeremy learns that mushrooms are the sexual reproductive organs of organism Mycelium. The bags are installed inside the bunkers.
The soil is dry enough for Kaleb to plant his Durum wheat. Winter wheat sells for 340 pounds per ton and is used for breads. Durum wheat sells for 500 pounds per ton and is used for pastas. Kaleb is a month later in planting due to the rains. A sap test shows Cato's regenerative agriculture yielding results. The crops are short of magnesium and Charlie suggests putting bath salts on the crops to provide the lacking nutrients.
The dam repair is still not moving along. Jeremy and Kaleb again decide to work together, this time as per the regulations. They try to unblock the pond overflow pipe, to reduce the amount of water flowing towards the dam. But despite numerous efforts, the overflow pipe remains blocked.
To make more land arable, Jeremy buys goats to have them eat down his brambles. Jeremy believes that getting the goats will count as environmental farming and qualify his farm for environmental subsidies. 30 goats cost 300 pounds. But the goat feed costs 70 pounds per bag. One bag will last one day. The lambs will have to be fed for 12 weeks, before they will be strong enough to clear brambles.
Jeremy attempts to breed more pigs. He separates the male piglets from the female ones. He then brings back the boar to impregnate the 4 remaining sows. Gerald returns to work on the farm having recovered from his cancer. He had radiotherapy 37 times.
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