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Planning Tools & Checklists for Small-Scale Growers

If you’re starting or growing a small farm, you don't have a lot of time and money to waste. Below you’ll find FREE practical checklists, cheat sheets, and action plans designed to help you validate demand, price correctly, and secure customers before expanding.

No filler, just structured tools that move you toward making an income on your small property.

As always, we only show you stuff that we have personal knowledge of and believe in. The free downloadable e-books on this page, the free e-courses from (ahem!) us, and all the other freebies, fall squarely into that category.

Let's start with this guide from idea to income as a small farmer.

Farm Business Tools

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The 2-Page Farm Business Plan Template.

Every real business needs a real plan, here's a way to take a 'snapshot' of your business.

This is the template I developed for my students in my Bootstrap Boot Camp Success Plan course. It's a way to visualize your business in a simple two-page layout. Only from New Terra Farm.

Get the free 2-Page Business Plan Here

Simple, Smart Small Farm Marketing.

Here's a quick guide to building a powerful and practical marketing plan for your small farm business.

Start with some fundamental facts about small farm marketing and guides you through Vision, Mission and Mindset to help you connect with the customers you want to have.

Start your marketing plan with my Simple, Smart Small Farm Marketing Cheat Sheet. Get it here.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

CSA In 60 Days Launch Checklist.

This checklist lays out the steps in launching your own CSA market garden in 60 days or less.

There a proper sequence to follow to ensure your launch is a success.

Get it in the CSA 60 Day Launch Checklist

Your CSA price has to do more than cover seed and soil; it must pay you a fair wage and reflect the value you deliver. You’re not competing with grocery chains. You’re offering fresh, local, sustainably grown food i.e. a premium, value-based product. Your goal: a price that your customers see as fair and that lets you stay in business next season.

Find out you need to know in the Pricing Your CSA for Profit guide.

Starting Your Farm

Here's a plan to raise livestock and an organic market garden all on about one acre. Just enter a valid e-mail address and receive your One Acre Farm Plan by e-mail.

Our piggies and chickens help to clean up our gardens and fertilize as they go. This is good for the animals and the garden.

Get the One-Acre Farm Plan here

Farm Launch Checklist

Coming soon!

Practical Gardening Guides

Market Garden Starter Guide

If you have ever seriously thought about making money from your garden, my Free Guide to starting-up, marketing and managing a successful CSA organic market garden is the place to start. Get it here.

Grow a Super Salad Garden.

Whether you are a 'newbie' or an 'old pro gardener' looking to get back into the game, this is an easy way to get started gardening.

Get Grow a Super Salad Garden here.

Digital Tools For Your Farm

New Terra Farm has been online since 2006; we've learned a few things about building a successful, income-generating eCommerce website. You can download my free report for some key insights to help you do the same.

A good farm website can actually make you money. Get my Free Report to find out how

A Dozen Free Business building Tools

It's a fact of farming life these days that software is just as important as hardware in running your business. And while it's unlikely you can find a free tractor or combine, you can find free digital tools if you know where to look.

Here's my list to help get you started; the list ranges from business plan templates to web site designers to a powerful free office suite to easy-to-use graphical software. Get it here.