DIY: Wood Chalkboard Clips. 175K+ Here is a simple and inexpensive craft project – Wood Chalkboard Clips.
There are many things you could do with them. You can write a fun note on it, clip it to a baggie and place in your child’s lunch box. Another idea is to clip them on a wire or string to hang papers or artwork. You could make it into a magnet clip and place on a refrigerator. They could also be clipped on a basket and used as labels. The materials I used for this project are small pieces of plywood, clothespins, clamp, painters tape, paint brush and black chalkboard paint. Want to know how to make these Wood Chalkboard Clips? I placed wood glue down the center of the plywood and put a clothespin on top. Next, I taped off the edges of the plywood with blue painter’s tape. I then applied the chalkboard paint. And that’s all you have to do…easy! Some thoughts on selling at farmers markets. Posted May 11, 2004 In 1999, I created the first farmers markets in London, England.
The first market opened with 16 farmers selling fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, cheese, bread, plants and wine. Today, London Farmers Markets runs 13 farmers markets (12 are weekly) in London all year-round, serving about 115 farmers and food producers whose total sales at the markets are about $5 million per year. These suggestions for marketing at farmers markets were originally written for the farmers selling at the London markets.
Most had no experience with direct marketing. 9 Rules for Starting Your Own Farm. Alternatives Center, Alphabetical Links - AgEBB. Farm Marketing Resources. Alternatives Center, Alphabetical Links - AgEBB. Northeast Beginning Farmer Project. Plan for Profit Profit doesn’t just happen.
You have to plan for it and actively make it happen by increasing revenue and decreasing costs. All too often in farming, the familiar profit formula looks like this: Income – Expenses = Zero Profit (or the “Profit” might even be negative) Increasingly, farmers are seizing the reins and building profit into their farms. 1) Holistic Management (HM) is a framework that helps you make better decisions when managing complexity. 2) The Organic Farmers’ Business Handbook by Richard Wiswall. High Tunnels. Sample budgets and spreadsheets Sample enterprise budgets: All crops [.xls spreadsheet] .pdf files of budgets in spreadsheet above: The information has been gathered from 8 different farmers.
Each farmer kept records of their labor inputs and also shared, to the best of their abilities, the cost of machinery and material as well as construction costs for their high tunnel structures. To make the budgets as consistent as possible, an average was taken for the per hour labor cost. The market price for each budget was kept intact. The third consideration is that several of these budgets were gathered from tunnel operations where other applied research was ongoing. The budgets included indicate that tomatoes and winter greens (including spinach) may offer the greatest profitability to retail market farmers. These budgets offer prospective high tunnel growers some baseline data that will assist them in making decisions concerning the best combination and rotation of crops in these structures. Starting A New Farm: Planning Guides & Resources for Success.
Are you’re thinking about starting a farm?
This guide is here to help you take initial steps. We provide an overview of the topic of starting a farm and point you in the direction of free information and resources to help you get started. This guide is primarily oriented toward small farm operations. The Quiz: Before we begin, are you wondering whether farming is the right career choice for you in the first place? Consider taking this little quiz produced by Taylor Reid, founder of beginningfarmers.org. The Question: Lots of people write us at beginningfarmers.org excited to start a farm, asking for advice. It’s Complicated! What to Consider? The above is offered here not to discourage, but to encourage careful, thoughtful planning. The many links above suggest that “starting a farm” is a topic too large to be contained a single webpage, in a single resource.
Resource List. How To Determine Your Cost of Production - UC Small Farm Program. Etaferahu (Eta) Takele, Area Farm Management Specialist, University of California, Riverside Cost of production is the dollar value of all your inputs for growing a specific crop.
For example, to produce an acre of tomatoes, these inputs would include so many units of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, labor and machinery time, etc. Each of these units has a dollar value. Add them up, and you have the cost of production for the crop. Knowing the production costs of your crops is a prerequisite for determining how well your farm business is doing: the difference between the value of yield per acre and inputs value. Estimating costs is easy in some instances and more difficult in others. Another cost category is that of "imputed costs.
" Interest charge is the cost of your money that is tied up in the production of a crop. (Total cash operating expense for the month) x (The number of months the capital is used) x ( Interest charge)