Have you thought about your seasonal workload? On our farm, we grow vegetables for 500 weekly CSA baskets. We also grow seeds for an online store. These are very similar activities: We grow plants, harvest a crop, pack it up, and get it to the client. But these activities don’t happen the same way for … More The Opposite Seasons Of Growing Vegetable vs. Selling Seeds
A good spreadsheet should play well with other spreadsheets. That means if you enter something into one spreadsheet, then you can easily refer to another spreadsheet that has additional information about that same something. Here’s an example … Say you are setting up a schedule for all the crops you are going to direct seed. … More FSA Tip #19 Refer to things with INDEX MATCH
After months of anticipation, my first online spreadsheet course is just about here! This week I’m giving two live webinars that will lead into the course. The webinar is called Build A Better Farm Crop Plan (without all the copy pasting, endless columns, and thousands of open tabs) It is about The 3 Things I … More Build A Better Farm Crop Plan
Back in November, I showed you how to extract seeds from squash. (All it takes is an axe and vacuum cleaner.) Today let’s talk about how to dry those seeds! (I know I’ve skipped over the actual seed cleaning part but I can’t find any great pictures of our cleaning. We’ll have to wait till … More Drying Squash Seeds
Often, you wind up with a spreadsheet that is a long list made up of the same things repeated over and over. This might happen with your harvest records for the season where there there is a row for each crop you harvested from each day you were harvesting. You might only grow 30-40 crops … More FSA Tip #18 UNIQUE – My Favourite Formula
Seed cleaning is a science and an art. We use box fans and home made screens to get our seeds pretty clean. We do have some fancy equipment (like the office clipper) that offer more precision. But the most precise tool we have is our fingers Yes, once we’ve gotten seed as clean as our … More The Secret To Clean Beans
Didn’t we already go through the 10 books of my Top 10 Farm Books Of The Decade? We did, but there is one other book I want to talk about. This is a book that just barely missed being on my list, but as I’ve been posting these last 10 days, I kept wishing it … More All the Dirt: Reflections on Organic Farming – Book Review
