Financial planning and management are essential for small businesses, providing a roadmap for you to reach your short-term and long-term business goals. Our Financial Planning & Management workshop will give you a hands-on, guided approach to managing your finances without feeling overwhelmed. Tailored explicitly to local food and farm businesses, we will cover how to:

• Understand accounting basics
• Plan and forecast for the future
• Manage debt
• Explore finance options that work for you

We are pleased to be joined by Madelaine Clerk, a market gardener, chartered accountant, and finance manager passionate about empowering local food and farm entrepreneurs with the financial skills and tools to build better businesses. Please note that limited space is available for this workshop to allow for a hands-on, collaborative learning environment to ask questions and engage with the instructor and other food and farm entrepreneurs.

Speaker

Madelaine Clerk is a market gardener, chartered accountant and corporate finance manager. She co-owned and operated City Beet Farm in Vancouver, BC for 4 seasons, focusing on running an 82 person CSA, a weekly market, and online sales of vegetables and cut flowers. Madelaine is passionate about empowering farmers and creative entrepreneurs with the financial skills to build their businesses. She has developed financial planning courses for farmers and small scale producers with Richmond Farm School, Tsawwassen Farm School, Vancouver Community College, Young Agrarians and the Bad Academy.