Market
I take saturdays off most weeks, and spend it either on here cahtting or snoozing, and basically wasting the day.
Well last Saturday we took a popup tent like youd see at a roadside stand and we setup a stand selling eggs in a farmers market in a city near here, I had never done anything like this before as I am painfully shy Rl, but I had about 36 dozen eggs to get rid of, and had to do something.
So we spent all afternoon on main street and sold alot of the eggs, and all in all we made about $51 bucks from it, so that was good.
I know you really loose money when you furst start off, but it was fun, and we got to meet and talk to some nice folks, plus we had some sales from a teaparty rally down the street, so that was nice aswell.
We went to talk with the store owner where we had rented the space from a few days ago, and folks had been coming into his store and asking when we would be back. It seems it was a hit :)
So he asked us to start coming back on a regular basis, so we will be there this coming weekend.
It was funny though, I had folks stop and ask for odd things during the day.
I had made signs up in bold letters that we were selling chicken and duck eggs, but we are asked among other things:
if we were selling ducks
if we were selling cookies
selling donuts
selling honey (As we had a bear on the table that was holding a plate with free mints for customers)
So we had to tell em no, on all the others, but it got us thinking.
So when we will be going back, we will be taking alot of eggs (Getting almost 4 dozen a day now) cookies (Chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar, and peanut butter and butterscotch, Bread, and Honey.
I finally got around to putting the escape board on my hive today, as I have been avoiding it for far toooo long.
I have had such trouble with wasps, it kinda soured me on honey bees.
But I just said, what the heck and plied right into it.
They didnt seem to mind to much, just buzzing around to see what I was doing, but a good puff of smoke sent them packing. So I got 2 full supers full of honey and id guess about 120-150 pounds worth in there, so tomarrow I will bring them inside and uncap em and spin em out, then its just a matter of straining the golden liguid and bottling it :)
So we will have a LOAD of jars of the sweet stuff to start selling.
And its after 2 am and my eyes are crossing and I feel goofy.
I gotta go feed the pups and then get some sack time
Take care all, and sleep well :)
Bear
Well last Saturday we took a popup tent like youd see at a roadside stand and we setup a stand selling eggs in a farmers market in a city near here, I had never done anything like this before as I am painfully shy Rl, but I had about 36 dozen eggs to get rid of, and had to do something.
So we spent all afternoon on main street and sold alot of the eggs, and all in all we made about $51 bucks from it, so that was good.
I know you really loose money when you furst start off, but it was fun, and we got to meet and talk to some nice folks, plus we had some sales from a teaparty rally down the street, so that was nice aswell.
We went to talk with the store owner where we had rented the space from a few days ago, and folks had been coming into his store and asking when we would be back. It seems it was a hit :)
So he asked us to start coming back on a regular basis, so we will be there this coming weekend.
It was funny though, I had folks stop and ask for odd things during the day.
I had made signs up in bold letters that we were selling chicken and duck eggs, but we are asked among other things:
if we were selling ducks
if we were selling cookies
selling donuts
selling honey (As we had a bear on the table that was holding a plate with free mints for customers)
So we had to tell em no, on all the others, but it got us thinking.
So when we will be going back, we will be taking alot of eggs (Getting almost 4 dozen a day now) cookies (Chocolate chip, peanut butter, sugar, and peanut butter and butterscotch, Bread, and Honey.
I finally got around to putting the escape board on my hive today, as I have been avoiding it for far toooo long.
I have had such trouble with wasps, it kinda soured me on honey bees.
But I just said, what the heck and plied right into it.
They didnt seem to mind to much, just buzzing around to see what I was doing, but a good puff of smoke sent them packing. So I got 2 full supers full of honey and id guess about 120-150 pounds worth in there, so tomarrow I will bring them inside and uncap em and spin em out, then its just a matter of straining the golden liguid and bottling it :)
So we will have a LOAD of jars of the sweet stuff to start selling.
And its after 2 am and my eyes are crossing and I feel goofy.
I gotta go feed the pups and then get some sack time
Take care all, and sleep well :)
Bear