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June 28, 2pm ET – Selling At Farmers Markets: The Good, The Bad, The Logistics
Share This:Are you feeling it yet? Whether your selling season is just starting, or hitting its peak, the pressure is mounting. Prepping. Packing. Commuting. Setting up. Sometimes several times a week. How are we handling it all? Let’s talk it through and get some tips for making it easier. Some...
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Set for Steady Cash Flow
Share This:Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon SK I picked up my onion sets today. Unit cost was $1.388 per lb. for bulk sets, around $70 per 50 lb. bag. Total cost was $416. Not the type of cash you want to lay out this time of...
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Best Tool For Beginners: Cash Flow
Share This:Many beginning farmers who enroll in our learning programs already know the standard operating equipment of a SPIN farm – a cooler, tiller and seeder. An important tool they haven’t thought about is cash flow. Cash flow is crucial for any small business, and it’s variability is a source...
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In A Retail Frame of Mind
Share This:Once farmers take on a year-round, permanent stand inside a Farmer’s Market building, they are in the retail business, whether they realize it or not. This presents some unique opportunities and challenges. On the plus side, you have less work because there is no setup and teardown on every...
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2018 Trends and Who’s Setting Them
Share This:Here’s Backyard Riches’ Alphabet List of 2018 Trends to look forward to, culled from all the presentations at this year’s Member Meetups. Thanks to all of the forward thinking SPIN farmers listed below who presented their business plans, how they implemented them and the revenue they targeted and achieved....
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Be Ready to Be Dynamic
Share This:Thanks to Ray Derksen,John Greenwood, Darmaris Katt, Beth Hagenbuch and Adithya Ramachanrdan for helping Wally lead last week’s meetup. and sharing their end of the year assessments in 5 areas: crops, marketing, work flow, gear and revenue. The main theme was in-season revamps to farm plans are now the...
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Refresher Courses
Share This:Watch replays of our instant learning sessions to get better at SPIN. Get better at what matters most to your business success. JUNE: Talkin'Operations with Wally-o Wally's moving his home base about 2.5 hours northeast. What worked when he was 5 minutes from market isn't going to work now...
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Seed Saving ROI – Would You Believe $250K?
Share This:Courtesy of Wally S., Wally's Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Seed saving has been in vogue for some time now, and there are lots of good reasons to do it. Here's one that surprised me. In crunching some numbers on garlic production, I figured out that from a $500...
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Basket Case
Share This:Here’s a small touch that can generate a big increase in sales – offering a shopping basket at your stand. It works in several ways. It makes it much easier for customers to load up if they aren’t having to juggle different items and encourages impulse buys. It also...
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How Good A Boss Are You?
Share This:Among the top reasons people become backyard SPIN farmers is they want to be their own boss. But that doesn’t mean they are good ones. Managing yourself requires a different skill set from managing employees, but it’s a skill set just the same. What are the signs that you’re...
