Heritage Hill Homestead

First Farmers Market of the year

I had the first Market here in town of the year this morning.  Overall I was very pleased, several things made it a great morning. 

Hubby has been going to one in Emporia, a college town about 20 miles from us since the first of May.  In the past I have begun ours here the first Saturday in June, which is also the city-wide garage sales.   But we had garden produce and a big part of mine here is baked goods, so we decided to go ahead and start up a little early.  I had not advertised at all, so wondered how it would go...........my regular customers came!!   We have it on the corner right at the main intersection of town, across the street from Casey's, so it is in a location that if anyone goes downtown they will see us there.  That helps a lot.

This is the 5th year for our little Market....and I do mean little.  Many weeks I am the only vendor, but I don't mind.  I really enjoy doing it and have a good customer base built up.  I enjoy visiting with the folks who stop by, some buy and some just stop by which is fine.

I took green onions, radishes, turnips, spinach, jams, lemon poppy seed bread, friendship bread, cinnamon rolls, muffins, 1 pie, some tomato plants and herbs that we had started in the greenhouse, eggs, chickens, buffalo, ground beef, whole hog sausage, and soap.  I can't think of anything else right now.

Sold out of everything except 4 bunches of onions, 2 loaves of lemon bread as far as baked goods and produce.  Sold 15 dozen eggs (hubby sold 15 dozen also!) The only meat I sold was chickens, however I did not have a sign out about meat and don't remember to tell people I have it unless they ask.  Need to get a sign made for next week!!   Total sales for today here was $105.  I thought that was pretty good for just showing up!

Previous years my Friday is so stressful and tiring.........so this year I am trying to follow a schedule through the week and do a little each day that I can to get ready for Market instead of doing it all in one day.   My goal last night was to roll out the cinnamon rolls around 8 ( I usually do it after 10) and I did start at 8:30!  I had them all done and the dishes done by 10 or so and got to bed a little before 11:30!  Good for me  Last summer my schedule was go to bed between 1-2am and get back up to bake rolls at 5............not enough sleep for this getting older gal let me tell you!   So, I was very pleased with my first Friday, and really intend to make my life a little less stressful this summer!  One thing that helped too was I only made 1 pie that was preordered, usually I spend a big part of Friday making pies.

A classmate was in town visiting her Mom today and saw me and stopped by to visit.  We had a nice chat and that made the morning extra enjoyable too. 

Hubby has the cold or whatever I had last weekend and is feeling quite yucky!  Mom called and wondered about going to Wendy's this evening and he did think he felt well enough to go, so we did and enjoyed the little change of pace for us all.   Wendy's is the nearest fast food place to us about 7 miles, Mom enjoys going over there every once in a while, so we usually do when she suggests it.

Country Blessings,

Marilyn~at Heritage Hill Homestead

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{ 11:55, Sunday, June 1, 2008 } { Posted by Kitty }

Our farmers market is very small too. But I go faithfully every Saturday morning and buy something from someone. I didn't make a garden this year, and believe me, I miss it. I would love to do what you do as far as selling your items. By the way, how much do you sell your eggs for. I'm often asked to sell mine, and I always just give them away cuz I'm not sure what to charge. Feel bad about asking family members for money, LOL..........Kitty