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A Well-Drilling (Customer's) Primer September/October 1984 Most well drillers won't deliberately gi...
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...
If you grow and cook them correctly, you may discover a surprising attraction to these nutty and de...
If this all sounds foolish, we can only report that we know our final customers are satisfied with our product because we've received some very pleasant correspondence from "fans" in New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. We think that's one of our little company's nicest "fringe" benefits!
Once sprouts are grown, they can be stored for about a week . . . if they're kept at a temperature of 38°F. We didn't have any trouble doing that as we made our deliveries with our little Datsun pickup truck late last winter and on into the spring...but summer briught a problem (the threat of wilted sprouts) with it.
Thanks to a good friend who lives down the road a piece, however, we solved that one in short order by building a big plywood box for our pickup's bed and lining it with an inch of styrofoam. The insulated box works just like a picnic cooler: The evening before our regular deliveries, we simply place a couple of containers of ice in the box . . . which precools the chest down to a "just right" temperature for those deliveries. And, perhaps just as good, the insulated box works the other way around during the coldest parts of winter . . . when it keeps our packaged crops from turning into "sproutsicles" as we make our rounds.
Although bookkeeping can be a pain, it's also an absolutely indispensable part of doing business in this day and age. After allunless you keep accurate daily, weekly, and/or monthly records of merchandise purchases, sales, gas mileage, etc.--how will you ever know if you're really making a profit or a loss or how much of either? And how else will you know exactly where you stand with the Internal Revenue Service?
And, speaking of the IRS, how elseunless you keep good records-will you know exactly how much your little home business will allow you to deduct from your yearly taxes? That is: When you operate a business from your especially when it's entirely legal and aboveboard.
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