Talk:Co-Op farming/@comment-64.130.162.17-20100815194052/@comment-70.59.161.30-20101002065629

I occassionally have friends who are in Europe and Australia join our co-ops maybe a few hours after the rest of us have planted all the plants needed to be seeded. These folks go ahead and seed extras in case, like happened to one of our co-ops, harvest time was 3am and someone fell asleep and forgot to harvest their crops. For our friends from Europe that was around 9am and for the folks in Australia, it was around 6pm. Sometimes it is because their fields weren't quite ready for harvest when we started or for our friends in Australia, it was the wee hours of the morning when we started. The good thing is, I usually know there are 2 or 3 people I can rely on if someone else forgets to harvest and because they did seed and harvest we still made the gold. We've only had one person join "late" and do nothing and we posted to all our walls and for a week noone visited their farm to fertilize,etc or helped that person. Since then that person joins right away and seeds or they sit out of the co-op. Regarding the farmers we had with only 150 plots.. I'd rather have folks like that who commit 100percent of their plots to the job than have one person with 400+ plots only commit 25percent of their fields to a job. So small farmers, don't be afraid to join a co-op.