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Sustainable Small Acreage Farming & Ranching
“I was just wondering if you could help me find my way?”
-Alice
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“Well, that depends onwhere you want to get to.”
Cheshire Cat responds…
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Goals
Provide direction and vision to help guide your decisions
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Ask yourself these questions:
What do I really want in life?
What can I do that will be most productive and worthwhile?
What am I really trying to achieve through my use of time, effort, money, and
management skills?
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Vision, Values and Beliefs
Your values and beliefs shape your vision
What you think is important
They drive your actions
Your vision is what you see in the future…for your farm, your quality of
life and how the landscape should look.
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Goals help you achieveyour vision of the future
…like a map, they will help you get where you’re going
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Without goals…
We react to what happens… leading us wherever the new path might lead
We often spend more time reacting and less time creating
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Things to think about…
Farm operation (type, enterprise, etc.)
Financial
Quality of Life
Resource base
Family
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Farm Operation
What size and type of farm?
What type of enterprises? (Animals, crops, integrated)
Product or service?
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Financial -
What is your definition of financial success????
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Quality of Life
The measure of shared value and satisfaction you and your family
attach to the various features of
place, the environment and
working
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Resource Base
Land, water and air
People involved with the farm
Potential of the landscape base
Purchasing power
Your skills and knowledge
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Family
The importance of family to farming can NOT be overlooked. Why?
Farming is a lifestyle You don’t leave home
to go off to a job The people who are
most important to you are often directly affected by the decisions you make
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Understanding your goals
Is the goal realistic?
Is it specific enough?
Can you see how to get there?
What are the action steps to achieve the goal?
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Short Term
Gain knowledge aboutand experience
In farming
Transition threeacres to
organic garlic
Break your list of goals down into short term and long term
Long TermOwn and farm
20 acres in the Pacific Northwest
Supplemental farm income from production and direct marketing of
organic garlic
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Continually Review and Monitor
Evaluate progress on a regular basis
Are these still your goals?
Steps to revise goals or get back
on track
How are you
doing?
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Ron Macher, Ron Macher, Editor:Editor:
“ Clarify and prioritize your goals”
“Keep them uppermost in your mind”
“Plan enterprises with your goals in mind”
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The Minnesota ProjectWhole Farm Planning at Work:
Success Stories of Ten Farms
www.mnproject.orgwww.mnproject.org
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Seeing the Big Picture on a Small Farm:Ray and Sharon Johnson’s Goals
Stay on the farm Have more time together Take a vacation
Make a living with dairy Increase profits Manage the land holistically for future
generations Have a pleasant living and working
atmosphere
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CreditsPresentation developed by Cultivating Success
TM : Sustainable Small Farms Education.
Photos provided by Cultivating Success
TM staff, unless otherwise noted.
Video segments taken from:“Affinity Farm: A Small-Acreage Farm Shares Strategies” produced by Ben Troka, University of Idaho College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Copywrite 2005, University of Idaho.
“Meadowlark Farm: A Case Study of a Small-Acreage Farm” produced by Ben Troka, University of Idaho College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Copywrite 2005, University of Idaho.
“Riley Creek Blueberry Farm: A Case Study of a Small-Acreage Farm” produced by Ben Troka, University of Idaho College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Copywrite 2002, University of Idaho Extension.
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