MICRO FARMING HOW-TO: Here’s a video on an interesting tool getting good reviews for helping you know if you have full sun, partial sun, partial shade, or shade. (The Center for the Micro Eco-Farming Movement has no business affiliation). This knowledge is very important when choosing the crops and location of crops, especially for backyard farming, micro farming and even some small scale farming operations that grow a diversification of different crops in various micro spaces.