The grant award was helpful but we found that the project took about 3-4 times the amount that we had anticipated to complete in both time and money. One should plan on that account and be ready for it as the grant only funds after the project is finished. If you are planting several acres, machinery is a must. We used our tractor extensively to dig the holes for the trees and irrigation valves, move supplies, dirt and trees themselves during planting. For tasks we would not do often we hired out, such as trenching, which I can say is very expensive itself even at a 1$ a foot it adds up very quickly. Physical tasks that we had a lot of, such as filling in trenches after lines and valves were laid, and helping planting were assisted by day hires off of places like marketplace. You need to plan for this both in budget and time it takes to find reliable help. These are not fire and forget workers, you need to be there with them on every step no matter how simple you think it is, after a few repetitions you'll see if your ready for them to do it on their own or not. Other recommendations is to plant a small test group before your main batch if you have not farmed there before. After doing so we found that are climate required the modification of the tree protection tubes which in turn required modification of our tree protection process and so on. Had we not done this test group we would have likely lost our entire batch the first year of planting. Cattle can be accustomed to the electric fence wire and tree guards at this time as well. We use the same color stakes on all our electric fencing so that they associate this color with something to stay away from.