Hello everyone!  I hope February has treated you well. 

Things are beginning to wind down for the 2011-2012 shares and pick up quickly for the 2012-2013 shares.  There have been a lot of new members registering which is great.

Here on the farm things are going pretty smoothly considering all that is going on.  Justine, Jem, Patrick and Tim are very busy down stairs working on getting veggies and eggs ready for orders and for the shares this week.  With all that they do I'm not sure how Patricia and Josh continue to provide so many people with such amazing produce every week of the year but they do, and they do it with such enthusiasm.

On another note, I was unable to attend the Vanadva Shiva presentation this past weekend.  If any of you went, what are your thoughts? I'm sure it was an amazing experience and I truly regret not being able to go. 

As always, if you have an any comments, concerns or recipes that you would like to share please let us know.  Hope you have a wonderful day.

Falicia

Here it is Friday night - February 17.

There is so much to do around me and I am not sure what to start first so I decided to hide out and check on the blog. Mike just got the blog enabled and content transferred over into our new blog forum on Harvest Hand. So, I am now committing to getting back into the swing of blogging. I have missed it over the past while. I realize every once in a while that I still have thoughts to express but haven't been doing it.

On my mind these days is cash flow. Money management is hard. That is all I can say about it. It seems that I am doing some major money management work right now at the same time as I am doing some eating management. I suppose it is no wonder that I feel like a beer and wings right now.

At NSAC Josh and I both took a course call Farm Management. We learned all about balance sheets, profit and loss reports and creating a cash flow plan. Trying to get it into action is not easy. We haven't really done a grade A+ on our cash flow plan over the years and yet I have really wanted to so that we can be more in control. Being in control is hard work. 

On an exciting note, seeds have started to arrive. We are eagerly awaiting the Johnnys seed order because it has the onions, leeks and celeriac in it. All three need to be started yesterday.

I hope you enjoy your Friday night and welcome back to the TapRoot - Patricia blog:)