Garden Thinking on Christmas Eve

I miss my garden. There is something very spiritual about farming. I feel close to the divine working so close the the earth. I am thinking about what to plant this year.
This will be the first year I dedicate myself actually selling my produce. I have sold some by the road out from my house, but it was more to build a deeper connection with my community, than to actually make money. I live in the rural town of Fraziers Bottom. Search it on Google Earth if you want, it is the only community that bares this name. It is in West Virginia, and like many small communities in my area, is falling victim to urbanization.
I am looking around at the assortment of seeds available to me online. I buy most of my plant starters from Caldwells, a local greenhouse. I finished seeding my garlic today. I grow elephant garlic here, which is more mild than regular garlic but produces massive bulbs. Elephant garlic actually is in the leek family, not the garlic family, but it tastes wonderful.
I also secured some manure today from some friends and family. My fiances family owns goats and alpacas, and I will be composting that, as well as chicken manure from my cousin Sasha. Composting manure is very important before using it. If you do not the ammonia and nitrogen in the manure will burn the roots of the plants, stunting or even killing them. It is best to age all compost at least 6 months.
I will be building some composters in the next month or so. These are relatively easy and cheap to make. I tend to shy away from the compost pile idea of composting simply because of the difficulty of turning the compost, which must be done to create air circulation. Instead, I will be taking 50 gallon plastic drums I have obtained from my neighbor Doodle. I will take these, and cut a square out of the side. Then I will take hinges and a latch and attach to the flap to make a door. I will drill a whole in the top and bottom of the drum and turn it on its side, running a bar right through the middle. Then I will screw paddles onto the inside walls of the drum and drill air holes all over the drum. This way, when the drum is filled with compost and rolled, it will turn the compost. This will also make the drums easy to transport around the yard.
I am looking at burpee.com and parkseeds.com at some of my seed choices, as well as using amazon. I plan on planting sweetcorn, popcorn, green beans, brandywine tomatoes (my favorite), bell peppers, onions, squash and peas in May. Then in my fall garden I want to plant some pak choy and other cabbages, onions, turnips, radishes, lettuce, carrots, and some greens.
At my house I have two gardens and a pumpkin patch. The main garden is about 3400 sq. feet. This one is often the most diverse and the most productive of the two. The second garden is located behind the first, and is about 1200 sq. feet.. I often plant just one or two crops out there, usually corn, and leave everything else to the first garden. The second garden is often eaten by deer and rabbits, so it is often not as productive. Last year I installed an electric fence, which has done a wonderful job of keeping the deer out. Also around April I and my friend Ben went out and hunted some of the rabbits out of the field. The area I live in is very fertile and wonderful habitat for rabbits. I counted 22 in my back field last April, and decided the thin them out a bit. I like having the animals around, but there must be some population control to keep them from eating everything to the ground (which they have done many times before). So, we went out and shot a half a dozen of them. This is good, though, because we both consider rabbit to be a fine meal.
Can't wait until Spring.