Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Business Meeting Minutes


Immediate need plant plants
  • • Work schedule
  • • Ground or pots
  • • Need~ pots
    • o Hadley garden center
      •  Mom call them
      •  Jared or Heather pick up with trailer
      •  Tom Giles
    • o Freecycle – moderately successful
    • o Craigslist – moderately successful
    • o Back up – People in CT
  • • Sod cutting
    • o Renting Sod Cutter
      •  For one day ($89)
      •  Or for one weekend ($129)
    • o Weekend Rental
      •  Heather Pick up
      •  Jared Drop Off
      •  Mom Reserve and Pay
      •  Pickup Friday
      •  Cutting Saturday 8am -2pm
      •  Cutting Sunday 9am - done
  • • Jared to stay tonight to pot plants with Mom
  • • Start Composting
  • • Call Wagner – Mom
    • o Ask if done cutting bark mulch
    • o Have delivered
    • o Delivery Fee – per truck load
  • • Call Ethan – Mom
    • o We need leaves!
  • • Printer – Mom & Heather
  • • Label plants - Mom
Composting
  • • Driveway other side of woods row
  • • Truck loads of leaves
  • • $35/load
  • • Betsy to find leaves
    • o Professional landscapers
  • • Grass clippings
    • o Professional Landscapers
  • • Brown Stuff, Green Stuff, Twice Ground (3 would be better) Hard Wood Bark Mulch
  • • Collect Compost –
    • o Vegetables
    • o Coffee grounds
    • o Tea bags
    • o Human hair
    • o Cat hair??
    • o Napkins/paper towel?
    • o Decompose in one year
  • • Coffee Houses – Later date
    • o Coffee Grounds
  • • All – Labor
    • o Turn it once per week
  • • Jared – Design Driveway
Business
  • • Zoning Board
    • o Made the call
    • o Waiting for answers
    • o Vendor license? Waiting for zoning to tell her
    • o Wondering if need to re-zone? Hope not, since already agricultural
      •  Exempt from zoning issues (business)
  • • Decide on Company Name
  • • Tax ID #
  • • Entity
    • o Partnership agreement
      •  Find online
  • • Grants
  • • Business Cards
  • • Website
    • o Newsletters
  • • Telephone Number
    • o Google Voice?
    • o Add line to Moms house?
      •  Vonage (special line $10)
  • • Mass Ag
  • • Work Proposition for Root Cuttings with Chris
List of Potential Problems
  • • Deer
  • • Field Mice
  • • Japanese Beatles
  • • Rabbits
  • • Squirrels
  • • Cats
  • • Lily Leaf Beatles
Avenues of Sales
  • • Craigslist
  • • Flea Market
  • • Tag Sales
  • • Craft Fairs
  • • Sales on Property
  • • Farmers Markets
Things we need for the business
  • • Soil Sifter
  • • Greenhouse
  • • Irrigation
  • • Fertilizer
  • • Compost
  • • Pest Control
  • • Mister (IMS) – Root cutting
What Plants do we want to do?
  • • Goal
    • o Easy to care for
    • o Readily available
    • o Love Zone 5
  • • Ornamental Trees
    • o Japanese Maples
  • • Shrubs
    • o Forsythia
    • o Lilacs
    • o Rose of Sharon
    • o Japanese Willow
    • o Mock Orange
    • o Wigalia
    • o Oak leaf hydrangea
    • o Red twig dog wood
    • o Burning brush
    • o Yellow twig dog wood
    • o Butterfly bush
    • o PG Hydrangea
    • o Pointala
    • • Evergreen shrubs
    • o Mop top
    • o Mine gold
  • • Perennials
    • o Day lilies
    • o Hostas
    • o Asilbys
    • o Ornamental Grass
    • o Seedum
    • o Shasta daisy
    • o Cone flowers
    • o Coreopsis
    • o Stone Crop



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