January To Do List

Training and Skills Development

• Register for relevant winter workshops
  • Look for relevant on-line training opportunities (live or recorded), such as webinars, videos, etc.
• Consider specific training courses for both yourself AND staff (e.g. First Aid, Advertising, Electronic bookkeeping, Record keeping, etc.) – Book it
• Consider = Are all of your licenses or certificates up to date?
• Review your insurance coverage. Do you have sufficient for your activities? Are all the things that happen on your farm covered?  Has anything changed?

Advance Planning

• Review your project to-do / wish list from the end of last season
  • What are some of the things that you identified?
  • What do you need to do to get some or all of those things rolling?

Growing Season Planning and Preparation

• Start thinking about and planning your field layouts for the coming season.
  • Does your current set up work for any new crops?
  • Do you have sufficient space for everything you have planned (headlands, activities, parking, etc.)?
  • Consider field orientation, irrigation systems, shelterbelts and traffic movement (foot, equipment, vehicles, etc.).
• Have you ordered the plant material that you will need for the next season?
  • Planning and ordering in advance can save a lot of headaches in the spring.
• Are you ordering transplants? Growing your own?
  • Cleaning up the greenhouse might also be in order
• Update / tidy up / repaint sales sheds and signs