Hippocampus. It's the part of your brain that is associated with space and memory. It's also how I think about business planning. My goal with our annual business plan (we call it Hippo Camp) is to do all the thinking upfront, then rely on that plan to help alleviate decision making fatigue in the heat of the farming season.

I know it isn't the new year really, but I look at November 1 as the end of my farming season and beginning of the next one. We send most of our employees home for the winter, we stop picking veg outside, and we take our time drinking our November 1 coffee rather than chugging it five minutes before employees arrive. We also start to assess, revise, and plan anew.