This Week's Notes 11/26...

 

     Happy Thanksgiving! I am writing to you on Wednesday instead of Friday morning to allow us to sleep in on Friday morning since we won't have to package orders. I've received a couple updates from vendors to work on today, and may receive more before Friday morning, so my email updates and ads may be slightly off this week while everyone relaxes a bit!

    The week after Thanksgiving marks 4 years of me owning Farmer at the Door! What a ride it's been! With no training, I rolled up my sleeves and jumped into running a beast of a business, that was nothing like I thought it would be. As a farmer, whose farm sold items through the prior owner, I thought "How hard can it be? You gather the items and then give them to the people who ordered them." The reality of the job though is running a logistics and packaging company based on an complex sales and computer system. It certainly took a lot of time and a lot of help to figure out all of the systems, to make everything run as smooth as it generally does, but even one monkey wrench in the plan each week can cause quite the upset, with so many moving parts.

     Looking forward to 2026, I still have a list of issues I haven't been able to fix, but certainly have plenty of data to analyze and am looking forward to some time after the holidays to do so and come up with next years plan of attack! While many of the things we have tried worked, there are still some that simply don't (like the insanity of pre-orders) that need to change. 

    In any case, it is time to spend some down time with my family and my barnyard animal crew, who are in much need of some brushins' and lovins' this weekend. Nothing helps me get the thinking cap on like slowing down and getting to enjoy my farm (which also needs its 2026 plan!) and even though it's cold, the views are getting more and more beautiful all the time. The cows have opened up so much underbrush that we can finally see our land and will be foraging for wreath making this weekend, on new trails that Brian has cleared as he has been gathering firewood (no, we still don't have the woodshed full yet!!!).

   I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and hope you get to enjoy time with family and friends as well. Thank you to everyone who makes this service run for the many farms and small businesses we help meet their bottom lines. We are all Thankful for you!​