Dawn Halla
Oskaloosa Flower Farm (Oskaloosa, KS)
“I loved this course so much! I have learned how to be more profitable and efficient with tasks on my farm this season. My whole approach is different and will be different from now on.
I think because of this new outlook I am attracting a different energy with the people I interact with in relation to my flowers. Several surprising new opportunities have opened for me that I was not expecting! So now I am facing the realization that I have to be clear in what I want each season so that I don’t go too fast. That’s a massive difference in outlook from last season!
I have learned how to manage each task I take on and am already so much more efficient! I have weeding tools! No more hand weeding for me. I weeded a bed in 35 minutes that took me days last year! Then another 26 minutes to weed the rest of my notill market garden with clean up included! Then I find myself looking around in absolute wonder and joy at how fast I did it! I am having such fun timing my tasks, so I am now a focused efficient farmer and can see that improving as the season progresses.
I am chuffed with the realisation that I can build my own website and have been slowly immersing myself in the process and feel competent because of the information Jenny has so easily explained during the course. I am not as terrified of spreadsheets! In fact, I think I am really enjoying exploring the process? It’s such a weird turnabout for me!
I am so thankful that after just six weeks I have made such dramatic changes in my thinking and have already made drastic changes on the farm. I have increased the amount I want to make this year on the farm! I could not comfortably project the new amount at the start of the course. It seemed too far out of my reach. Now, it’s totally doable and I am ready!
I want to thank Jenny for all the information she gave me during the course. It has truly changed the trajectory of my farm, but mostly the way I think and approach being successful and profitable.”