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The Harvest Flip Calendar is a fun educational tool to take with you to the market or share with new customers. First, make sure you have a garden plan in place. Dismantle the box so it's one long piece of cardboard.

With this material, the site generates a video that can be shared on social media or your farm website. You don't have to show a profit (thank goodness—farming doesn't often put you in the black), but there's no reason you shouldn't make as much money...

For most herbs, a few general rules apply: First, never pick more than 1/3 of the plant's leaves per time; and second, let the plant recover before picking again. “I use strawberry baskets to hold them up.” The Ocasions grow sweet basil, oregano,...

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Baby Spinach It takes some practice and skills to grow great baby spinach, as it is easily swallowed by weeds. You can also consider spinach artichoke dip, spinach soups or spinach for juicing.

Sometimes it takes just a little tweak here or there to make a difference, but sometimes it takes reimagining your whole booth space. There is perhaps no bigger marketing mistake than letting your produce wilt in the wind or sun on the farmers market...

Crafts & Handmade Items Aprons Quilts Baby Items Doll Clothes Hand-painted Nativities Christmas Ornaments Hand-carved Spoons & Honey Dippers Pottery Needlework on Pillow Cases Potholders 3.

In the fall, any extra effort stands out, so any products you bring should look fresh, vibrant and healthy. Always keep a cooler of ice and keep swapping out any rough looking greens, and remember to mist them with clean and fresh tap water regularly...

Offer Them in Fall and Winter CSA Shares One of the best ways to get the most out of butternut squash is to offer them as part of your winter or fall CSA shares. So today we consider the many ways in which one can market, price and ultimately move more...

It's simple and straightforward for customer and farmer alike. Anything that customers ask for regularly, try to have it before or after they usually see it. So the customers are rewarded at that price if they buy more items, but they have to pay a little...

Value Adding Of course, access to a commercial kitchen would allow you to create pickles of your own as well as pre-made salads, cucumber water, crudites or any range of cucumber-related products to manage their bounty and provide additional value to...

The flavor is slightly spicy and bright with a nice crunch—foodies as well as chefs love it. Here's my advice. Because unlike a potato or tomato, they weigh very little, so selling them by the ounce or pound can be a difficult, especially if someone...

Most customers are accustomed to the lighter flavor of softneck garlic they have purchased from the grocery store. Strategize Product Placement Jenn Vargas/Flickr Situate your garlic among vegetables your customers routinely purchase, and have a recipe...

Crop rotation allows them to keep healthy and productive soils. It's hard work on many fronts and can be a challenge to not overwork or burn out. However, this much diversity proves to be less profitable.

How can you then take what you currently successfully produce and create an easy-to-use product that fills a need for your customers? It's a win-win, too, for the brewery as my farm market stand adds interest and value on a typically slower Tuesday evening...

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How to Market Arugula Arugula will sell at farmers markets in larger towns and cities—and we always give it at least once to our CSA—but the best source for arugula sales is almost always restaurants , in my opinion.

It's important to be familiar with what's expected of you from both departments. Know The Difference Between Processed And Raw You'd think the difference between a processed food and a raw agricultural commodity would be straightforward, but some states...

Where's the value in such an expenditure? Loren Gifford Again, farming is a business. Having a package of photos to choose from can offer you the opportunity to post something that inspires likes and comments at a time when perhaps you don't have a lot...

Group same-use items together: salad fixings, green beans with new potatoes, cilantro, tomatillos and chiles. Your stand's outward appearance and decor should shout “country!” And make it stand out.

Deworm, vaccinate and never sell raw fiber from an animal that might have a contagious disease. Introduce yourself at local guild meetings and knitting circles, and give workshops or lectures at your local yarn shop, Montessori and other schools, and...

Price Point and Upfront Costs A bottle of juice requires a lot of produce. You will need to have an accurate knowledge of your investment to prevent losing money on your juice sales.

Join Organizations Becoming a member of farming and consumer organizations on the local and national levels can go a long way in connecting you with like-minded people and possible customers.

Inspirational efforts such as “We Got This Wednesdays” could be fun. (Obviously, the more specialized video equipment you have, the better the videos will turn out, but it's not necessary.) Make videos on social media that are good enough, and who...

The kids and adults, alike, had so much fun, they convinced him to reform the commercial blueberry field into a u-pick farm. The thought of ongoing crowds can be unnerving, however, to the farmer who purposely chose the peaceful rural life.

Galt adds that the issues raised by community-supported agriculture's evolving (and easy-to-manipulate) definition are present on a national scale, citing the first-ever mention of community-supported agriculture on the U.S. Census of Agriculture.