Daily Tasks

You get to work, and how do you decide what to do? Let me walk you through the decision-making process.

The priority is always to ensure that:

1. Customers/Employees are in a safe, cared for environment.
2. Fish Health is maintained.
3. Customers are taken care of

Let’s take a deeper look step by step:

Many of you will arrive once our day has already begun on the farm. More than likely we will already have an ongoing chore tab for the day. We prioritize our day by our weekly farm improvement goals, fish health maintenance and events.

To see what events are occurring, you can see the manifest on Fareharbor. We will also keep an updated chore planner in the building for more specific items in how to prepare for groups. There are often a basic number of things that can be prepared for each type of group.

Our goal for the building is to get the fish processed through the building in a fast and timely manner. In our spare time between guests we can prepare for the next guests coming and/or aid in fish production (Lilly will help determine this for you.)

Our group types are:

School fishing- we set out 5-8 poles with the hook in a safe position out for the guests at a designated pond with a separately colored bucket. We also clean the East Picnic Area for them.

Weddings-They will have a specific layout given that will be in the building. Depending on the time of day we will either be on landscape or item setup.

Fishing-We like the pole rack to be stocked, feed to be stocked and bathrooms to be clean.

Customers/Employees are in a safe environment

Health and Safety are our biggest concern. Please note any unsafe working conditions that could lead to injury either to a customer or employee. For example, this could happen through unsafe use of fishing poles (excessive swinging, etc) that could hook another person or say it is a very windy day and large branches are falling from a tree. Both of these items should be taken care of immediately. Another example, would be dull knives. It is important that we have sharp knives in order to prevent employees from cutting themselves. If there is something that can be improved in our environment to aid this customer experience we start here. With an outdoor farm, unexpected things can happen so it is important to be observant.

Fish Health is maintained

Clean ponds directly affect fish taste and health. It is very important to us that we provide the best fish for the customers. The first step to achieve this is by cleaning the ponds. The screen at the end of each pond catches moss, sticks, dead fish, garbage, etc. All of this needs to come out at a minimum one time daily. In the summer time, this will need to occur more frequently.

We may need help on a day-to-day basis with the following items: feeding the trout, mucking ponds out, loading orders, etc. This will all be taught to you and you can ask any of the following people for additional information: Tylynn, Tarah, Jonno or Lilly.

Customers are taken care of

Help the customers that are at the building currently and prepare for groups for the day.

Go to the website: www.fareharbor.com/coldspringstroutfarm/login

Click on the Manifest tab.

Select the Date you need.

A list of the day’s groups will come up. You can click on each group to gather all information necessary, in order to prepare for the group. If a group is coming the next day, you could work on landscape in that area the day prior to prepare, etc.

If all of those are taken care of, what else? C heck out our Notes Tab on the Square Stand. There is a Note called Tasks. It will detail options of what we are working on. Often it includes:

• Bathrooms need to be cleaned frequently. Ideally, at least once an hour on busy days.
• Clean the building
  • Rinse the fillet boards, knives, and sinks etc.
• Yard work
• Make poles (we always needs backups)
• I’ve never been “done” working on projects. So if you find yourself, not working on a chore, you will need to talk to either a supervisor and let them know you are available for help on a new project or visit the Tasks section. The answer is never to do nothing.