You’ll also want to order foods to arrive on right day. It won’t do much good to have 200 appetizers arrive day after party! Most online food catering services ship overnight so make sure you plan properly. Most appetizers will arrive frozen so you want to make sure that you are home to accept delivery so that you can get them into freezer for proper storage before they thaw out.

Make sure you know how to properly prepare appetizers so that you can plan your day appropriately. Since food will be frozen be sure you read instructions to know if and how they need to be thawed. In addition to thawing, you will get instructions on how to cook appetizers and make sure you follow these precisely since if you don’t your fabulous hors d'oeuvres could end up tasting like mush!

Finally, feed your fungi. Really. Many stores specializing in products for organic gardening and sustainable agriculture sell micorrhizal spores, which is a fungus that helps soil release its nutrients more easily. Micorrhiza needs to be fed in order to reproduce and survive winter. Use a hose-end sprayer, and fill it halfway with gooey, blackstrap molasses. If you can find sulphured kind, so much better. Fill rest of sprayer with flat beer, and spray solution over your garden beds. The sugar in molasses feeds existing fungi and beneficial bacteria in soil, and yeasts and enzymes in beer add more. You’ll literally make your soil come alive, and that will help your garden thrive next year.