First Post Steed Farm Organics

Hello to all.
This is the first post to which I hope carries a conversation with our friends around the world. It is my hope that we can carry a dialogue about starting, managing, and enjoying the organic produce brought forth from our farm. I hope that we can entertain and inform each other during the process. I promise to ask your help when needed and hope the we can harness our collective goodwill, intellect, traditions, and creativity to inspire and build a unique farm in Florida.
We just finished harvesting our Hamlin orange crop which is about half of the 14 acres. This should provide us with some revenue to start our organic vegetables. The citrus are old and are infected with tristesa virus and are dying out. We will be pushing up the trees as needed to make room for more productive crops. Our trial garden is growing well and we are evaluating what we can grow and what we can't. Our season is unusually warm this year so we don't have the best data to go forward with. So far, lettuce, mustard, dandelions, collards, and onions are doing well. Escarole, red lollo lettuce, and beets are not so hot. The escarole is beyond palatable! I cooked it with olive oil and garlic and still can't eat it. Just too bitter. What a disappointment! It is also growing poorly. The red lollo lettuce is just too slow for production. It looks fine and tastes great but I am hoping to find something just a little faster. I just planted two different varieties of escarole and red leaf lettuce to see if they improve the poor results we attained with the other varieties.