Planning for Planting

Planning for Planting

Will the real garden planner please step up?
Lesson: 1.12
Level:
Advanced
Station: Seed Starting
Format: Essential Skill
Rating:
Advanced Lesson 1.12 Planning for Planting

Lesson Overview

Any business requires planning and that includes the ability to effective draft and manage a budget. This lesson tasks students with the creation of an annual budget for the Lab.

Teach the Teacher

Method

Create an annual budget for the Lab using the Succession Plan developed in the Intermediate Lesson. This can be done individually by each student, in small groups, or together as a class.

Factor in all projected costs, expected germination rates, losses from disease or pests, and balance that against projected earnings from harvest.

What should the Lab’s annual planting budget be? Would the Lab be profitable if it were to sell 100% of the harvests? How could profitability be improved in the Lab? How could costs be reduced?

Related Lessons

Now that you’ve completed the Advanced Lesson, just remember that you can always revisit the Beginner and Intermeidate Lessons as needed.

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