From Soil To Story

It truly has been another banner week at Five Feline Farm. We are grateful to each of you who value what we do and shop in our store. This coming weekend marks the end of our season, but we are not going away. We will spend time refreshing, learning and building to bring you more … Continue reading "152-Another Banner Week"

What a difference a week makes! Thank you to everyone who sent encouragement, positive thoughts and product orders. Our “Small Business Saturday” stretched into the entire week making it the best week ever. We have been hinting at sharing the story of how BEEk Balm© originated and how we came up with this unusual name. … Continue reading "151-The BEEk Balm© Story"

Celebrate with us on the occasion of our 150th episode of Farm Chatter. We even give ourselves a little cowbell! When we first started a podcast, we had no idea we would be able to sustain it for this long. Yet here we are. You, our listeners have heard us explain what we do, why … Continue reading "150-A Milestone Episode"

This episode is packed with news. We share our new vision for “courses”, which really won’t be courses at all, at least in the traditional sense. In coming to this decision, we discovered how we had been making assumptions and not using our respective strengths to the fullest. If you are interested in learning from … Continue reading "149-Refreshed and Renewed"

As small business owners we are continually learning how to improve. Some of the things we are learning currently: -Facebook is not a platform we can rely on to advertise and promote our products. -Building and sharing our Spotify playlist -new formats to reach out to friends, fans and customers You heard us talk about … Continue reading "148-Things We Learned This Week"

We cover a lot of topics on today’s podcast. First, a huge shout out and thank you to everyone who placed orders this weekend. Several of you took advantage of the new pickup boxes Friday afternoon, we did delivery on Saturday morning and even mailed out a few orders. We are so grateful for our … Continue reading "147-What’s Up at Five Feline Farm?"

Wow! There is so much going on here at Five Feline Farm. This episode is packed full of updates and information. We are transitioning to all pickup, shipping and delivery beginning November 6 and 7, 2020. You can order any of the products we normally carry in our physical store and choose how your delivery … Continue reading "146-Small Businesses Must Be Flexible"

Even headed into winter, we are excited to keep growing and working on our Farm business. In addition to our online store, we are developing courses to teach what we have learned as we build Five Feline Farm. If you are interested in these courses as we develop them, you can sign up for our … Continue reading "145-Building the Business Continues"

We are into late October now and the garden season is changing. Frost and freezing weather forced us to harvest all remaining summer produce, but many other things are in season. Garlic and perennial onions are now in the ground, persimmons and black walnuts are plentiful. Our attention is turning to planning for winter and … Continue reading "144-Fall in Full Swing"

Farm Fest 2020 was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came out to the Farm, enjoyed great weather, music, vendors and visiting with each other. On this episode of Farm Chatter, we recap the day, talk about next steps and just generally “debrief”. It’s what we do. Don’t forget to post or send … Continue reading "143-Debriefing Farm Fest 2020"