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Introducing The Farmer Spreadsheet Academy!

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Daniel Brisebois is an organic farmer & spreadsheet maniac!

Dan and his team provide helpful tools and techniques to help famers optimize their farm. How? Through the power of spreadsheets! The Farmer Spreadsheet academy offers regular online classes to help you fall in love with using spreadsheets to manage your farm. In addition, they offer free monthly online workshops. Their next workshop is Thursday March 17th:

Plan to Save Seed in Your Market Garden

Dan Brisebois & Fred Thériault also offer an excellent handbook Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers

This book is a great read for vegetable growers, both big and small! This handbook provides great insight whether you are an organic grower, permaculture enthusiast, or other. A great read for new farmers! Dan & Fred draw upon their own experiences running and operating Tourne-Sol farm in Quebec. The farm is a cooperative farm with 7 members and many employees. Their team are all passionate about good food, gardening, seed production, and ecology!

You can check out their 11 step process below:

Set your financial goals

Develop a marketing plan

Make field planting schedules

Create crop maps

Choose vegetable varieties and finalize planting schedules

Generate greenhouse schedules

Fill out a seed order

Make a field operations calendar

Carry out the crop plan

Analyze crop profitability

Plan for next year

Dan has a blog with lots of great articles. Check out his blog for gardening tips & tricks here: Going to Seed with Dan Brisebois

The even have an electric truck they use to deliver their veggies! Check out more here: Elec-Truck!

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I took Dan's course when I was starting my market garden business. I had no idea how many different ways spreadsheets could be used to make my life easier as a small scale farmer! I really enjoyed the course. Dan makes the content enjoyable and and easy to learn at your own pace.

I highly recommend Dan's course if you sell produce from your farm or homestead! The spreadsheet skills I've learned have translated to many different realms of my life.

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