Okay, so, from a landscape perspective, if I'm seeing your map right, your cliffs look like this:

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The shelves in the picture wouldn't be flat, and they wouldn't slant down to the walls. The slope would be like this:

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So your farms would ALL run on a curve, west-east. (Much like the largest farm plot on your first drawing.)