First Day Back at the Springfield Farmers Market
Sunday, May 10th, 2009Pretty much a drizzly day, normally we would blow off the farmers market with weather like this, but it was the big opening. We did OK actually. A bunch of regulars showed up and bought multiple bags. (We did 6 oils if anyone is still tracking this.) Since this should be the slowest day of the year AND it was raining, this is pretty much the worst case scenario. This means we WOULD make this amount if we did show up on a totally lousy day during the busy season.Our next big expense should be an extendable canopy that sticks out from the front of the tent. This should keep our front table sorta dry along with the customers. EZ-UP doesn’t make this sort of thing and it’s kind of tricky finding something that fits my professional model tent. Speaking of expenses, it looks like we’ve got to replace anything made of plastic in our tent. After 4 seasons of this, the hot sugar and oil sticks to everything and no amount of scrubbing with chemicals and wire brushes can remove this “glue”.
Keeping with the kettle corn theme: NPR (National Public Radio) recently did a spot on a kettle corn vendor in Kansas City. You can listen to it here. I guess more people are trying to make additional income in this economy and are considering doing this. Of course I laid all this out in my ebook “Start Your Own Kettle Corn Business“.
