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Sign-Up for Individual Coaching Sessions
Southeast New England Agriculture Conference & Trade Show
Bristol Aggie High School
February 4, 2024
Individual Coaching Sessions - get your farm business set up for success in 2024!
The Carrot Project will be providing free, individual support through fifty minute coaching sessions during the Southeast New England Conference & Trade Show taking place at Bristol Aggie High School on February 4, 2024.
Topics Available
The Carrot Project staff and advisors are available to provide coaching on:
- Improving your farm's bookkeeping
- Wrapping up 2023 farm finances
- Business plan review
- Assessing crop insurance options
- Financial planning
- Accessing loans
If there are other topics you are interested in (for example, land access and transfer, access to capital, etc.), support is available year round.
About The Carrot Project
The Carrot Project offers one-on-one business assistance aimed at helping farmers and food business owners achieve greater financial management expertise and confidence in making business decisions that lead to long-term business success. Our personalized services have a long track record of increasing farm profitability. We want your businesses to be here 5, 10, 25, and even 50 years from now.
Do you want to:
- Increase profitability, overall business health & YOUR peace of mind?
- Plan for an expansion, transition, or explore scenarios?
- Manage risk or recover from a setback?
- Really get your books in order to support operational analysis?
Connect with a business advisor at The Carrot Project to propel your business past challenges you faced in 2023, and answer key strategic questions for 2024.
What should I expect during the coaching session?
During the fifty minute coaching sessions, meet with an advisor or staff member of The Carrot Project to discuss your farm's financial management questions.
After signing up, the coach will contact you via email to ask if you have any plans, documents, or questions you'd like reviewed ahead of the session. Submitting your questions or items for review in advance can make sessions more effective.
The session can also serve as a gateway to ongoing business assistance.
Cost and Participation
These coaching sessions are free and available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Pre-registration is recommended.
Coaching sessions will be in English.
Support is available for the following topics. Please register below.
Bookkeeping
or
Wrapping up 2023 Finances
Cian Dalzell
Three Maples Market Garden
The Carrot Project Advisor
Cian is available to answer your questions and provide support on your farm's bookkeeping, or support wrapping up your farm's 2023 financial records.
To make the most of your coaching session, please plan to have access to your financial records:
- Access to your bookkeeping software OR
- Hard copy reports of profit & loss and balance sheet OR
- Spreadsheets if you use them for bookkeeping OR
- Your 2023 ledger book
Coaching Session Times
11:55am - 12:45pm
1:40 - 2:30pm
2:40 - 3:30pm
Register with the button below
Business Plan Review
or
Crop Insurance
Amanda Chang
The Carrot Project Staff
Amanda is available to review your business plan, or answer questions and assess crop insurance options for your farm.
To make the most of your coaching session please plan to bring:
- Your written business plan and related financial projections OR
- For crop insurance, a solid estimate of your last three years (or more) of gross farm revenue
Coaching Session Times
11:55am - 12:45pm
2:40 - 3:30pm
3:40 - 4:30pm
Register with the button below
Financial Planning
or
Borrowing
Jeff Cole
The Carrot Project Staff
Jeff is available to answer your questions and provide support for financial planning, or to review The Carrot Project's loan process and loan application.
To make the most of your coaching session please plan to bring:
- A solid estimate of your last three years of gross farm revenue and total expenses
- Goals for your farm business
Coaching Session Times
11:55am - 12:45pm
2:40 - 3:30pm
3:40 - 4:30pm
Register with the button below
Don't See the Topic You're Interested in? Unable to make the coaching session times?
Email our staff directly to schedule:
Jeff Cole, Client Services Specialist (jcole@thecarrotproject.org)
Amanda Chang, Relationships & Sector Development Coordinator (achang@thecarrotproject.org)
or call us at 617-674-2371.
Or Sign-up with the button below
Services are available for farm and food enterprises in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Services are free for most, with a cost-share for those over our asset/income guidelines.
Our services include:
- Professional business advisors to help you apply what you learn to your business
- Access to and managing capital
- Development of financial statements
- Cash-flow budgeting
- Enterprise planning and development of financial projections
- Setting up financial tracking systems such as QuickBooks
- Market channel analysis
- Managing financial risk
- Assessing need for managing inventory
- And more!
Reach us at businessassistance@thecarrotproject.org or by calling 617-674-2371. Learn more about The Carrot Project's services on our webpage.
To register for a coaching session, please complete the form below and press submit.
Thank You!
You have registered for an individual coaching session. We will reach out ahead of the conference with reminders and more details.
Questions?
Email Jcole@thecarrotproject.org, or call 617 - 674 - 2371 with any questions.