If one of your goals is to upgrade your recordkeeping system, you should consider the spreadsheet template system called Market Farm Forms. Created by Marcie Rosenzweig, a market farmer with good computer skills, Market Farm Forms was first released back in 1998. Now it has been republished and is available for $59. This new edition includes the same templates as the original, but they have been updated to be compatible with both PCs and Macs and with any kind of spreadsheet program. They work fine with Excel, in which they were created, but also with the Mac-based Numbers application. The package includes a CD with the templates plus a booklet that explains how to enter your own numbers in each template. It also provides blank versions of the templates, with the formulas visible, for those who don’t have computers or prefer to keep records by hand.It includes 18 forms, with all the formulas built in, for a variety of tasks including planning how much seed to order, how much of each vegetable to grow for a CSA, how much money you'll make, plus invoices, picking lists, availability lists, and much more.
