Food for Life - Gold Scout Interest Badge

Badge requirements

Completion of the Food for Life – Silver Scoutcraft Badge is a prerequisite for this badge.
Draw up a basic business plan, which you are to implement, which includes:
1. Name of the business;
2. Market place – Where you will sell your produce and who will your customers be;
3. Product – What you will be selling;
4. Budget – How you will keep accurate record of income and expenditure and how much you will charge for your products;
5. Staffing – Who will be responsible for each job; and
6. Marketing – How will you market your product – including a poster or banner that you will use.
Do ONE of the following:
1. Pickle a vegetable
2. Make jam
3. Dry a vegetable or fruit
Grow two types of these vegetables and donate them to a worthy cause or help an orphanage, old age home, church, etc. to start a garden.
Explain how you will test the type of soil that you have.
Explain two types of irrigation that you can use for your vegetable garden.