Take a minute to think about your answer to the following question. How did your answer compare to your peers? Regardless of how you responded, if you chose one of the options above, you were wrong. Your company’s most important asset is your PEOPLE! Without...
Raising money is easy. Paying it back is hard. More specifically, the initial building of the project is the easy part. It is a finite process that includes creating your food or farm business plan, obtaining the funds, and building the physical location. Even...
As I begin to reflect on 2020, two important points come to mind. These ideas have been reinforced for both myself and the rest of the Kitchen Table Consultants team through this unprecedented and challenging year. Reminder #1: Hope is a renewable resource, and...
Every company has two critical limited resources: time and money. It is absolutely essential to observe–with a clear and critical eye–how these two resources flow through your operations. Unfortunately, this kind of honest and unflinching self-evaluation can be tough...
If it wasn’t for people, business would be easy… and the same goes for management. What’s the second most frequent complaint of farmers nationwide (after weather, of course)? That would be LABOR, am I right? For most farms and food businesses, labor is the...