I love hearing about other people's projects!
Starting off relatively small and expanding steadily gives you time and opportunity to observe the landscape and weather patterns which may alter your plans. If your new to gardening, you will learn a lot in one season. At least for me, much of what I read about gardening and permaculture really didn't sink in until I dove in and got my hands dirty.
Also, the areas that I haven't really worked on benefited from all the disturbance I caused working on other projects. For example, wild asters started blooming where I hadn't seen them before. I had disturbed the ground from leaving mounds of dirt or wood chips or compost or lumber while working. These are late blooming flowers and they were mobbed by bees since there wasn't much else available. I realized that I had better adapt my plans to include more late blooming plants, which sounds obvious to me now, but I hadn't thought it through before. Also, medicinal and edible weeds for humans and animals started to pop up more abundantly in areas I had disturbed. This season, I am going to time my mowing on areas that I am not working directly on to give these time to pop up. I was able to get a whole new harvest for myself, what animals I do have and the wild creatures. Your situation my not be as wild as mine, but I am just offering that as an example.
My plans also altered as I discovered micro climates. Just by accident, I discovered spots that were naturally protected from early frosts. Which then made me want to research on deliberately building micro climates. I also paid attention to where the sun hit the property during the main growing season which altered some of my initial plans.
Getting an early return is a permaculture principle and helps keep it fun, and not so overwhelming. Lots of observation is another.
