How to sell radishes at farmers market
FARMERS MARKET PRICING & A FEW TIPS
don't be afraid to charge top price at
your farmers market or farm gate you
want to sell it you're gonna grow it
they're gonna buy it believe me
stay tuned and I'll explain okay so a
very serious conversation today I have
people saying that they can't charge top
price because people won't buy it when
you grow stuff for your farmers market
or for your even farm gate sales you
want to put a table out at the end of
your road to sell your product do it
people will buy quality product and when
you start it the first year yeah okay
things might go a little slow but those
people will remember great product and
they will continue to come back year
after year and buy more and more so
please don't be afraid
I'm just gonna show you something in
today of what we do at for our market we
also do sell stuff here at the farm for
people that don't make it to the market
I'm gonna give you a few more tips on
what to grow for your farmers market or
farm gate sales which is very in it's
inexpensive and it sells like crazy so
stay tuned I'll be right back
okay so I have my herb bowl filled with
soil and more I had wet it and then I
had it's more soil so what we do we have
these square containers that we grow
some of our herbs in sometimes we grow
them in around four and a half inch hmm
excuse me these ones we keep until they
start getting really ratty and then we
throw them out but otherwise we reuse
everything so what we do we sell these
each individual herb gets sold for $3 at
market with our herb bowls we charge $25
so you have your
your bowl these came from jbk which I'll
put the link down below but I mean you
can source them out anywhere you don't
have to use this exact container use
whatever you want do you find anything
you can go to the dollar store and get
the round bowls just put some drainage
holes in the bottom
I don't know use your imagination if you
don't have access to these kind of pots
for now this is what I'm using so less
than two dollars for the ball just over
$1 for the soil and the plants we retail
at $3 I'm going to put 5 in the herb
bowl what I do is I take the tallest one
which would be the parsley once it's
once it's completely grown these are a
little smaller but I'm just in the ER
bowls we don't necessarily put the
chives because they do spread but some
people do like them so we'll we'll mix
it up a little bit today I'm not going
to put the chives in but I'm gonna show
you what I'm gonna do with the chives in
a minute so we take my parsley which is
the tallest and I put that right dead
center that's gonna grow nice and tall
then I'll take my time you don't have to
do it in this order either and I just
kind of loosen this loosen off the soil
and put that in at the side around the
edge then my oregano so like I said
we're gonna put five and five in these
ones and we do keep our tags in here
fortunately I have some tags we don't
have enough to do them all but I'll use
them up while I can and then I'll just
use them we have white little marking
tags they're plastic and I just write on
them so my oregano
and then I'm gonna take my rosemary oops
and it's good to keep them tagged
because a lot of people you'd be
surprised don't know which herb is which
it's a good learning experience for them
and then my basil tagging
like I said I'm not gentle at all and
then of course I will give it some more
water
just to settle the soil like that and
then we'll make sure before they go to
market the the container will be dry and
we'll just give it a good clean off so
there you have it this is 25 dollars at
market people buy these like crazy
Mother's Day Father's Day you name it
they buy it and then a lot of people
will actually buy them as hostess gifts
when they're going to visit people going
over for barbecues it's just a great
great gift and people will pay it so
don't be afraid to charge so I'm going
to show you what else we do if you don't
have access to these bowls and it'll
take a lot less soil I went and filled
this with soil but I should thinking so
this is what's nice about when we use
the square plots we just take this our
six pack plunk these out and these fit
perfectly in to the six pack so we will
transfer this in to oops into our six
pack and this is where we do put the
chives in
my thought and you just continue to put
all six and these sell for $20 so
there's $18 for the plant and you're
reusing the soil that they came in now
the odd one I'll have to add because
there wasn't as much soil so how messy
is that and that'll all perk up so
there's a $20 herb mixture that people
can plant into their very own gardens or
do their own pot or whatever so a lot of
people like to play in the dirt and like
to plant themselves but they don't have
access to place to grow and they just
like to buy their own little tray like
this and plant them into whatever so $20
for this $25 for this because you have
the bowl you've taken your time to play
set do not be afraid to charge so there
are two very easy ways to sell your
herbs you could do this with if you
wanted to do this with even a vegetable
garden you could do a tomato plant you
could do onions you could do radish you
could do anything and use your
imagination we don't we don't have the
space or the time for that because we
have so many other things going on but
just use your imagination and charge for
what you do so there we go
okay another herb Bowl actually this is
going to be a lettuce Bowl we charge $15
for our lettuce bowls and this is how
easy it is so you get yourself of a
container some soil doesn't have to be
this exact container get something big
enough
let me show you what I do so I use the
five star greenhouse lettuce and this is
just a lettuce mix so there's different
types of lettuce in here this is 35 day
germination I are to finish I think no
I'm just going to show you just take a
very small amount like that in your hand
and we just sprinkle it over actually
that was even a little bit too much and
then we take a little bit of soil
sprinkle that over like that water give
it a water slightly and that's it you
can then sell this once it's germinated
once it's the lettuce will grow I don't
know but like that and then you cut it
just to about an inch and you just
continue cutting it all summer long so
for fifteen dollars they can eat lettuce
all summer that is not expensive at all
and here's one that I planted last
Friday and it's starting to germinate so
just to give you an idea
so this one costs you basically next to
nothing to choose Twp less than $2 for
the pod $1 something for the soil and
nets and nothing for the seat because do
you just use so little so in probably
about I don't know three weeks time this
will be ready to go again
I'll have it nice and cleaned up and
these are lettuce bowls people really
really love these okay so here I have
some of my heirloom tomatoes I've been
planting these out into bigger
containers these are my ox heart and
I've still got a transplant these but
I'm gonna show you what I've done so
these ones in the six-packs are all my
heirlooms to go into the beds in the
greenhouses so I'm gonna let these take
root for maybe another week or two and
then I'm gonna transplant them into the
raised beds so these are ours and we'll
continue picking our tomatoes off these
and bringing them to the market putting
them in our CSA so these were the ones
that I did the other day that I
mentioned we sell for six dollars each
and these sell like crazy but what I
decided to do with my heirlooms instead
of putting them into the six inch to use
smaller pots and less soil I will bring
you over and show you I decided to put
these into our little four and a half
inch pots with these we are going to
sell them for four dollars each these
are all heirlooms people will gobble
these up I mean people want heirloom
tomatoes they're looking you can see
they're a little yellow right now that's
because I just started stocking the
fertilizer to them so they're starting
to green up already anyhow that's not
what I'm talking about
so with all these they will sell like
crazy $4 a piece some people might think
oh my goodness $4 for one tomato plant
well they'll come to the market
and they'll spend 350 or $4.00 on for
tomatoes this way they get the whole
entire plant in the garden they stake it
and they get a lot of tomatoes and they
can save the seed and grow their own
next year if they want but there are
going to be people that complain we all
know that and the people that really
want good quality produce and what's the
gain your trust they will be back year
after year and they'll be asking for
stuff the same as the strawberry hanging
baskets and the tomato hanging baskets
anything different the rhubarb plants we
can put that into a patio pot and people
just love to have their own rhubarb on
their on their deck or the veranda where
when they don't have a space for a
garden or whatever so just remember it's
really important to not worry about what
people are gonna think or are gonna be
people that complain regardless but the
majority of the people will want to buy
your product so make up some lettuce
bowls and herbals and little tomato pots
like this and put them out at your yard
if you're not in a farmers market or you
don't have a farm but you have the space
to grow a little bit of this even if you
put out ten pots a day or whatever
people will buy and they will if the
product is good they will tell people
and people therefore people will be
following them and coming to your farm
your house whatever and purchasing them
so charge top dollar otherwise it's not
going to be worth it there's a lot of
time put into it you have your seed you
have your soil you have your hard goods
you have your time you're babying them
it's not like like box stores and I'm
not knocking box stores but the majority
of people that oh my arms get sore the
majority of people that work in the
bigger stores the box store
they aren't gardeners they have no
interest in it it's a job to them and
they you know they'll water or they
might not water I've seen that before
they're not looking after them whereas
when it's your own stuff you're you are
looking after them and you have to
charge for your your labor and your time
and your product so anyhow I vented have
a great day bye
