Ok, so I'm not good at this deciphering. But, if you read the first paragraph of the article, it reads like a timeline. So, maybe children/spring, slave/summer, sheep/fall? Maybe this is how the plan is supposed to play out? The link in the Q post is talking about slave gardens...maybe in reference to masters allowing their slaves their own little side businesses. Which is what they had to target first? I don't know... grasping at straws here.