Flowers are Serious Business

Flowers are Serious Business focuses on the legal, financial, and business issues and considerations cut flower farmers face when operating their business. This series features four 60-minute, Zoom-based presentations given by various experts, and is tailored specifically to address the needs of cut flower farmers.

March 5
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. ET

Happiness is PivotTables: The Spreadsheet Skill You Didn’t Know You Needed.

Emily Patrick of Carolina Flowers

Description

Do you wish spreadsheets were easy? Learn about PivotTables! A PivotTable is an interactive way to quickly summarize and display large amounts of data. Once you learn how to set up the simple, easy-to-use pivot tables within your own spreadsheets, you can drastically reduce the time spent on farm planning, floral ordering, and analyzing crop yields.

In this webinar, Emily Patrick of Carolina Flowers will show attendees how she builds simple databases and uses pivot tables to analyze them. It IS possible to count every stem, and knowing crop yields unlocks incredible possibilities for pricing and future planning. She will also explain how they collect data at the farm and how to build these processes into employee position descriptions. Lastly, she will explain how Carolina Flowers creates databases to provide insights into floral recipes and plug buying.

March 7
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. ET

Customer Education Strategies for Cut Flower Growers

Dr. Melinda Knuth of NCSU

Description

Join Dr. Melinda Knuth of North Carolina State University for this exciting webinar! Customer education strategies refer to the communication tools, language, and overall approach used to inform your existing and prospective customers about your services and products. Learn how you can enhance your cut flower business by helping customers understand how your offerings can meet their needs. After the webinar, registrants will receive access to the webinar recording and a handout with additional resources.

March 12
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. ET

Legal Issues for Cut Flower Farmers.

Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm

Description

Jenny Jonak of Dragon Song Farm has been an attorney for 27 years. She will talk about legal issues that affect flower farmers so that you can run your business professionally and minimize liability. Topics include whether you should incorporate or form an LLC, and the advantages and disadvantages of how you structure your business; and how to use contracts, releases and waivers in your flower sales, CSA subscriptions and wedding/event work. Jenny will include some introductory forms and will talk about how best to adapt them to your business practices.

March 13
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. ET

Analyzing Cut Flower Profitability through the Enterprise Budget Analysis Process.

Jenny Marks of Trademarks Flower Farm

Description

Do you know which flowers are actually making money for your farm business and which ones are costing you? Jenny Marks of Trademarks Flower Farm will present on calculating and analyzing cut flower profitability through the enterprise budget analysis process, an essential process for a fiscally healthy business. Farmers will learn how to keep crop sales and expense records, the step-by-step enterprise budget analysis process, and techniques for improving cut flower profitability.

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