Market gardening workbook
Crop plan, seed inventory, rotation, harvest and sales, food safety, and more for market gardens.
Planning
- Dashboard
Farm identity, at-a-glance season overview, plus full-workbook Excel and PDF export for your market garden.
- Northstar
Set your farm's mission, values, 20/10/5/3-year vision, three-year strategy, and the annual WHYGOs that drive every season.
- Goals Tracker
Track SMART goals across seven farm categories — your season north star for growth, sales, soil, learning, and team.
- Crop Plan
Plan crops, beds, successions, and projected revenue per crop — the spine your propagation, seed orders, and finance lean on.
- Propagation
Seedling sow-and-transplant schedule driven by your crop plan, with automatic transplant dates by crop and succession.
- Cover Crop
Plan cover crop mixes, sow and termination dates bed by bed to build soil between cash crops every season.
- Rotation Matrix
Multi-year crop family rotation across every bed with automatic conflict detection for back-to-back families.
- Weekly Tasks
Seven-day kanban-style task planner that pulls work from your crop plan into the week ahead, grouped by category.
Field Ops
- Field Notes
Daily field observations and journal entries by block and bed with category filtering — searchable history beats memory.
- Jang Seeder
Reference and log Jang seeder roller, gear, and spacing settings per crop so successions seed the same way every time.
- Transplant Log
Track every transplant to the field with auto-calculated plants per bed from row count, spacing, and bed feet.
- Irrigation
Water budgeting and zone schedules with weekly gallon requirements calculated from flow rate and run time per zone.
- Season Extension
Manage tunnels, low covers, and frost protection with square-footage totals for every protected growing area.
Harvest & Market
- Harvest & Sales
Daily harvest log with revenue totals and channel breakdowns across CSA, market, wholesale, and restaurant sales.
- Market Outlets
Set and track target revenue across CSA, farmers market, wholesale, and restaurant accounts for the season.
- Yield Benchmarks
Library of production value in dollars per bed-foot and yield density in pounds per bed-foot to compare crops fairly.
Business
- Financial Dashboard
Annual profit-and-loss snapshot with revenue from harvest log, COGS, labor, overhead, and net margin in one view.
- Labor Tracker
Log hours by worker, enterprise, and task with cost roll-ups so you see what each crop and crew really costs.
- Seed Inventory
Manage varieties, sources, stock on hand, and lot numbers with low-stock alerts based on your reorder points.
- Equipment
Asset registry for tools and vehicles with straight-line depreciation, service dates, and replacement planning.
- Legal
Document register for insurance, licenses, leases, and contracts with renewal date alerts so nothing lapses.
Soil & Inputs
- Soil & Amendments
Application log with total pounds auto-calculated from rate per 1,000 square feet and total area amended.
- Fertilizer Reference
NPK and application-rate library pre-seeded with common organic amendments — feather meal, bone meal, kelp, more.
- Compost Production
Batch tracker for compost piles including carbon-to-nitrogen ratios, turn counts, and status from building to ready.
Knowledge
- SOPs
Standard operating procedures library with versioning and review dates so every job runs the same on or off the farm.
- Pest & Disease
Integrated pest management scouting log with severity ratings and action tracking across crops and beds.
- Variety Trials
Run variety trials with composite scoring for yield, flavor, vigor, and disease resistance to pick winners by data.
- Resource Directory
Directory for seed suppliers, mentors, technical service providers, and the trusted vendors that keep the farm running.
Food Safety
Improvement
- Risk Register
Qualitative risk management with likelihood-by-impact scoring and mitigation plans across the whole operation.
- Annual Review & Kaizen
Close the plan-do-check-act loop each season with a kaizen backlog of small improvements for next year.
- Learning Log
Track external insights from books, courses, podcasts, and mentors so the lessons compound year over year.
- Leadership
Crew management with team member strengths, growth areas, and 1:1 meeting notes to develop your people.
- Farm Layout
Map and manage beds, blocks, and infrastructure — the foundation every other tab in the workbook references.