How many hours per week do you dedicate to managing administrative tasks such as emails to customers, onboarding new CSA members, or following up on unpaid invoices? Do you ever think, “There must be an easier way to do this!”? There is!

Join Glen Young from Cold Springs Organics to learn how you could be harnessing the power of automation to make your administrative life easier. Glen will teach farmers how to use free or inexpensive tools to automate a number of common tasks, taking them off of your plate and freeing your capacity to focus on other aspects of your farm business. Glen will focus on Zapier, an online tool that can automate a number of behind-the-scenes tasks. He will walk you through other farmers’ automation processes and show you how to build these processes for yourself. Leslie Moskovitz from Cedar Down Farms will provide a real life example of being supported with these automation processes.

About Glen Young

Glen Young is the owner of Cold Springs Organics, a certified organic vegetable farm in Port Hope, Ontario, serving customers from Cobourg to Toronto through a thriving CSA program, farmers’ markets, and prepared foods. Drawing on a professional background in information technology and business process design, Glen has developed practical, data-driven systems to track farm costs, measure profitability, and streamline operations—bridging ecological farming values with sustainable business management. At Cold Springs Organics, Glen applies detailed cost of production analysis to guide crop planning, pricing, and decision-making, and implements high-tech labour tracking and farm automation tools such as Zapier to save time, improve accuracy, and increase profitability. Passionate about knowledge sharing and committed to a future with many successful small farms, he combines hands-on farming experience with technical expertise to help other farmers adopt efficient, scalable, and resilient systems.

This webinar is supported by funding from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario.