I spend the first couple months of the late fall/early winter doing a bit of recouperating.  The season takes a lot out of a person physically and emotionally.  During this time I still spend days packing storage and frozen vegetable shares.   It's not until January 1st or so that I really start looking towards the upcoming season.  This is the time when applications for interns start rolling in and I start interviewing.  Much of the time is also spent dealing with the paperwork and taxes that any small business has to deal with.  I also work on the marketing of our CSA during this time of year getting ads for newspapers planned out and new brochures made up as well as doing website development.   With the new upswing in the internet, I spend some time developing our website and spreading the word about our farm through the newest avenues of facebook and twitter (though I have to admit I am not a routine blogger).
     The months of January and February I also put on my "enterpreneur hat" more often.  In owning my own business, it is important to step back from the entire operation and look at whether or not our farm is going in the right direction. This part of my job is important in order to make sure that our farm is always moving in a direction that is full of vitality, life, and inspiration. I take an opportunity to look at what seems to be working for our farm and try to eliminate those things that just seem to be more work for us.  During this time, I also take more of an opprotunity to read the newest agriculture books that have come out or attend a farm conference in order to hear new ideas in farming.    As a farmer, we too often can get too wrapped up into the day to day work and taking time to look at the bigger picture of what we are doing is important to sustain us for the long run.
       February is the month for seed ordering and field planning for the next year.   I have done CSA long enough now that this part of our operation is pretty set.  I have all our fields set up on various exel websheets.  I joke that where a conventional farmer is dependent on his chemicals, I am dependent on my spread sheets.  But when you are growing over a 100 varieties of crops and need to fill the boxes every week during the growing season there is a lot of planning that goes into it.  The spread sheets tell me exactly how many rows of each type of vegetable I am going to be needing, when each crop will be planted in the greenhouse and then transplanted out, and give me the approximate date when this crop will become available to harvest.  From this I can extrapulate how many seeds I need to order and how much fertilizers, potting mix and other supplies I will need for the upcoming season.  Of course, these spreadsheets are just plans and when the actual season starts we have to constantly work on the biggest variable of weather that can turn everything upside down.
      Speaking of weather...the large amount of snow that we receieved this year has kept me certainly busy.  After having our hoop house collapse a couple years ago I am vigilant each time it snows in clearing off the greenhouse.  This year in MN we have gotten more snow than in the past 10 or so years. Each of the snow falls have come in quantities of less than 8 inches so I was able to just go out each time and push off the snow. Here's what i do... I turn of the blower fan and wait about 10 minutes so the air in our double plastic is out. Then I take a push broom and push from up from the inside of the hoophouse and it slides right off. One of the problems though with accumulated snow is that I now have banks reaching 6 feet on both sides of our hoop house. Our one hoop quansit house goes to the ground with very little straight up and down on the bottom of the hoops.? Because of this. The banks of snow are now getting very heavy on the bottom of the plastic. So i now have to spend a lot of time shoveling 6 feet banks of snow! It is one of the times that I'm thankful that I only have 2 greenhouses 80' long. 
I'll post a picture of the greenhouse online.