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A Well-Drilling (Customer's) Primer September/October 1984 Most well drillers won't deliberately gi...
If you grow and cook them correctly, you may discover a surprising attraction to these nutty and de...
With its 2010 calendar filled with garden recipes and vibrant photos, the Seed Savers Exchange deli...
If you want to grow nutritious and tasty fresh vegetables during the cold months, sprouts are the a...
Once you've checked out the demand for sprouts in your area, you'll have an idea of just how extensively to "gear up" for production of the foodstuffs. In our case, we knew that we were going to make a go of our little home business or bust . . . so we plunged right into the enterprise a whole $1,000 worth!
This initial investment purchased everything we needed to launch The Season Is Now Sprout Farm on a rather substantial footing: seeds, labels, lumber for the shelves we needed to hold our sprouting jars (the one-gallon, wide mouthed containers themselves were collected free from local restaurants), nails, wood and screening for lentil trays, drainage pans, bags, boxes, box tape, a stapler and staples, tongs, cheesecloth, rubber bands, order books, a record book, a business certificate, invoices, other miscellaneous business supplies, rent, oil (heat), electricity, water, and telephone.
As anyone who has ever started a business knows, we also invested more than money in the establishment of our little enterprise. A great deal of time and energy went into the collection of our "free" glass jars . . . the naming of our operation and the design of its labels,
stationery, and business cards . . . visits to several printers . . . phone calls and meetings with bag and box suppliers . . . the construction of racks and trays . . . the design and installation of a drainage system (for rinsing and washing the sprouts) . . . the registration of our partnership papers with the county clerk (which was easy, and was done for banking purposes) . . . the opening of a business checking account ... the placing of orders for seeds from a major natural food distributor (check your local health food stores for a wholesale source in your area) . . . the obtaining of a liability insurance policy (it was inexpensive) . . . and other odds and ends.
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