Business

You may save your garden a lot of strife and your plants a lot of wear and tear if you do the picking. If you want to start a Christmas tree farm, you need to plan ahead. It takes approximately seven years for a Balsam fir–perhaps the most traditional Christmas tree–to grow from a small sapling to a 5- to 6-foot tree. Consumers come to the property, Business pick the one they want, and you harvest it for them. The other option is to buy your trees from a wholesaler and sell them either in your yard or in a vacant lot that you rent from Thanksgiving to Christmas. As a budding entrepreneur, you’ll need to decide whether you will sell your herbs as live plants, picked or cut in bunches and packed, or dried.

• Appendix — Once the above pieces are complete, end the document with an appendix summarizing your business plan.
• The World Bank Group is working on a new approach to assessing the business and investment climate.
• Licensing and insurance will be the two most important factors in opening a dog walking, grooming, or training business, but your canine colleagues will surely make up for the