Thursday 5 June, 8.45am to 4pm

Presenters Kristy Stewart (Yan Yan Gurt West Farm), and Charles Otway (Terra Perma) will cover a range of ways to integrate trees into your farm. Workshop topics covered include:

  • Why Trees on Farms
  • Who’s doing what on their farm
  • Farm Design for Trees in the Landscape
  • Yan Yan Gurt West Farm Case Study
  • Trees on Farms Field Walk and an introduction to Master Tree Growers with Kristy Stewart and southwest forester Bob Hingston.

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Business Planning

Thursday 5 June, 1pm to 2.30pm

Tools to use to support business planning, monitor progress and measure your success
– How to identify areas for improvement or changes over the past 12 months and in the future to improve your business operations.
– In a challenging environment that requires businesses to be adaptable, how to address changing needs, potential threats, or new opportunities
-How to set and track short-, medium- and longer-term goals for your business and what specific actions are you taking to ensure you achieve them

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Business Performance – Finance

Thursday 12 June, 9.30am to 11am

Demonstrating financial viability in your application

How to use graphs and figures to indicate the rates of growth and decline and how this compares to previous years.

How to approach major factors in turnover and profitability.

Some years businesses make a loss while getting established, that’s fine, you just need to show where the money is being spent and future projections.

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