Photo by Kyle Smith This month of reckoning, estimating, projecting, evaluating, reconciling, and then starting over again and repeating the process is nearly at a close. The annual inventory is done. The website is updated with what’s available for sale, my note pad is scratched up with lists of our overstocks, and the annual […]
Archives for January 2023
Not Just Another Cappuccino
She’s gone again. Our good friends and neighbors, Anthony & Vivian, who own Plowshares Coffee in Harlem and Bloomingdale (and who roast the coffee we serve at Sap Bush Cafe), ran into another labor shortage this January. Saoirse was only too glad to help them out. She threw her sleeping bag and a change of […]
First Month
January’s back. The month of reconciling and reevaluating. Bob’s and my fingers touch every piece of meat on the farm, examining condition, tallying stock, physically assessing what has been damaged, what has sold, what isn’t moving….And why. It’s the month when we pour over the numbers with mom, dad and the crew, celebrating the […]