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Although we're anxious to get started every spring, we can't enter the fields until the soil temperature has risen sufficiently and the soil moisture is not too wet, or the soil structure would be ruined and difficult to work all year. We plow under our cover crops, disc the field until it is smooth, and then make raised beds into which we seed. As we're making the beds, we are packing organic fertilizers in them. Raised beds help prevent seed washout during heavy rains. The beds warm up faster and allow air movement which helps prevent disease.