Apply Now for Winter 2025 Learning Pathways!
Apply Now for Winter 2025 Learning Pathways!
Join a group of like-minded entrepreneurs as you work towards a milestone in your own business. This program is designed to incorporate the wealth of knowledge from our Subject Matter Experts as well as provide a connection for networking with businesses that are going through the same growth stage as yourself.
The following topics will be offered in Winter 2025:
Food growers need to know how to price their products to make their farms sustainable and increase revenue. Understanding pricing fundamentals allows us to improve efficiency and reduce expenses. This series is for food growers who want to improve pricing models to make a profit in 2025. During this 8-week series of recorded workshops and live, online working groups, we will learn how to calculate production costs for effective planning and product pricing, and we will dive into using margins to plan for cost of production, revenue, and staffing.
January 21- March 11, 2025 (Live, online working groups will be held biweekly on Tuesday mornings).
Learn about:
Why farmers should know how much it costs to grow a unit of product
How to calculate the cost of production for sustainability, growth and profit
Learn about:
How to use financial statements to calculate operating costs (i.e. growing and packaging) and fixed costs (i.e. mortgage/lease) to price our products
How to use your unit cost data to understand production intensity and harvest intervals for what you grow
Learn about:
How to plan for profit before you put anything in the ground or in the barn
How to use break-even analysis to calculate how many units you need in a given production area to produce enough to exceed your operating costs
Learn about:
Why data and gut feelings can sometimes give you different answers
How to use break-even analysis to make data-driven decisions; for example, how much labour will be required, how much shrink to account for, how to think about potential risk, how to plan future harvests, how to consider future land opportunities
Do you want to elevate your leadership acumen and implement a toolset that will propel your business forward?
Effective leaders are good engineers! This 11-week online series of 6 recorded workshops and 5 live, online working groups will illustrate the structure, process and tools of effective leadership. You will learn how to implement a reliable blueprint in your business that will proactively guide your team to achieve predictable and elevated business results.
Jan. 23 – Apr. 3, 2025 (Live, online working groups will be held biweekly on Thursday mornings).
If you don’t lead your team, you will get what you are given – not what you want.
In this session, you will learn about:
If your team is not focused, you are like a rudderless ship being blown in the wind.
In this session, you will learn the processes required to:
When making a plan, it is crucial that you are clear on your vision, mission and values.
In this session, you will learn:
When everyone is accountable, no one is accountable.
Clear communication creates accountability and provides a framework for success.
In this session, you will learn how to create clarity for your team and empower them through:
Leadership involves not only a framework but also someone to implement that framework. That is what it means to be a leader; you are the only one who can do it.
In this session, you will learn how to use structure, process and tools to empower your team to execute a plan while:
The world does not stand still, and neither does your business. If you don’t continue to revisit your plans, learn from mistakes and adjust, you will not optimize and/or be able to scale your business.
In this session, you will learn to:
