Early on I was very grossed out by many topics in the areas of business. I was working on a farm and not in a corporate environment because I didn’t agree with much of what I saw businesses doing to the earth and how we relate to ourselves and each other. The result was that I was in business and resistant to being in business. How can we shift the language we use in our businesses to match our values and desires?

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A pack of amendments to the national organic standard were passed in March that will affect many organic handlers. The amendments read like amendments, meaning mostly in long, confusing sentences that were somehow constructed by a human and not an AI in training. So we’ve put together this post on how to determine if the rule affects you. 

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One of the major benefits of selling a value-added product is that you now have something people want to buy for other people, that they can ship to friends and family, that carries a label that can attract new customers. So don’t shy away from the biggest sales season of the year. Here are some ideas for making your product offerings giftable on a more limited budget.

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Once you have a value-added product to sell, now comes the part many folks don’t talk about - you have to actually sell it! Here are a few tips on how to make the most of your farmers’ market display to sell more of those products you’ve worked so hard to create.

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Here is a roundup of some of the biggest questions I get about organic certification from small scale food producers.

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I know how you got here. You have so many different small batch flavors. You're not sure what you'll produce next year. Your value-added products are only a small portion of what you do. And so on. However, if you're falling into either of these traps as a value-added farmer its going to be really hard to make this a business and not just a hobby.

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