We Can Do This! Income-Generating and Cost Cutting Ideas for the Farm
The long-awaited board meeting where members presented their ideas for income-generating or cost cutting ideas for the farm took place on Sunday, June 14, and the best idea of the day goes to (drum roll, please) Bill who crunched the numbers and found the farm could contract out the haying on the farm for less than it currently costs the farm to do it. “We should not be making our own hay,” Bill explained. “It’s costing us. We break tractors. We burn a lot of fuel. It’s too expensive.” According to Bill, we can have someone cut our hay for $25 per bale. “We can’t do it for that,” Bill added. “What I would like to try this year, not next year, now, on the second cutting, is to…