The thing I miss most about selling at farmers market is lining up all the pints and quarts into straight rows of contrasting colours and shapes. Organizing vegetables this way brings such a deep sense of fulfillment. Still we made the decision a few years ago @??fermetournesol to leave market and double down on CSA. … More What I miss about market
How much seed do you need? Here we have 4 beds of green onions directly seeded in the ground. Each bed is about 75ft long with 5 rows per bed and 50 seeds per rowfoot. So 4 x 75 x 5 x 50 = 75000 seeds. That should give us enough green onions for 6 … More How much seed do you need?
Seeds, spreadsheets, and farm quality of life are a few of my favourite things. I’m serious. Seeds – those dense little packets of genetic information and potential that carry stories and communities over millennia – I love all the things that they grow into, I love the way they feel when you harvest, I love … More Seeds, spreadsheets, and farm quality of life
You want your spreadsheet cells to change colour based on what’s going on inside? Conditional Formatting is the thing for you! This is the first a few Conditional Formatting tips. This one is the basics so we can get more complicated next time. In this tip, we’ll see … How to get to the Conditional … More FSA Tip #29 A Conditional Formatting Primer
Today’s tip was inspired by an email I received wondering if there was a way to merge the crops lists from 3 separate crop plan into one list. Well there is a pretty quick way to merge lists. And if you throw in the UNIQUE and SORT formulas you can organize your merged list to … More FSA Tip #28 Merging Lists In Google Sheets
Here’s a Profit Calculator I put together to get ready for week 3 of the Season Review Challenge. You can evaluate each of your crops against your profit benchmarks to see what crops you should grow more of on your farm, and what crops you should drop. Step 1: How much do you want to … More FSA Tip #27 Crop Profit Calculator
This is the second in a series of Farm Spreadsheet Tips about Google Forms. Last tip we set up a Google Form to gather harvest data during your harvest mornings. In this tip, we’ll link that form to one of your farm spreadsheets so you can work with the answers. This works for all Google … More FSA Tip #26 Working With Google Form Answers
This is the first in a series of Farm Spreadsheet Tips about Google Forms. Next week will be the beginning of the Farm Season Review Challenge. And one of my key season review tools is Google Forms. I want all of you to make sure you understand Google Form Basics to be able to use … More FSA Tip #25 Setting Up Google Forms
When do you need to plant your lettuce so that it’s ready to harvest on time? When did we actually harvest the lettuce and send it to market? When did we do some other incredible significant farm activity, and was it done at the right time? Dates are a key component of a good farm … More FSA Tip #24 Understanding Date Formats
Is there anything as ugly an a farm spreadsheet full of #DIV/0! or #N/A or some other error message? Yes, these messages tell you what might be going wrong in your spreadsheet but sometimes it doesn’t matter. You already know you can’t divide by zero, let’s move on to something else! Error messages can make … More FSA Tip #23 Hiding Errors With IFERROR