"Not a problem! Easiest thing I've got is the flax plot. You just need to rake the soil and scatter the seeds by hands -- they're small enough that you don't need to be particularly precise about it."

Eddie demonstrates the technique on one corner of the plot -- the soil has been mixed with some extra sand for better drainage, and is easy to break up with the rake. Then he 'broadcast seeds' the spot -- scattering them more-or-less evenly over the raked ground.

"It's not a food crop for humans, but the seed meal left over from making oil can be mixed into animal feed. Linseed oil is edible, but also it has interesting industrial applications. And flax fibers are used to make linen fabric," Eddie comments, as an explanation for why he's dedicating farmland to the plant.