A vegetable field grows slowly enough that it catches you off guard when things are ripe and ready to pick and then eat or sell.
We have been doing a market in our area and selling Chinese buns. The cabbage above is used for the filling, as is the smoked, cured pork we raised and prepared and the eggs we get from our hens.
I have also been selling egg tarts with organic cream and homemade pastry. Business is not booming, our products are not quite flying off the table, and there are no lineups, but we have gotten some good feedback about the pleasantly intriguing tastes of our food. One customer said: "These are awesome!" That was nice.
I was a lemonade vendor as a child. I didn't have to have a permit for the stand I had at the end of the sidewalk. I can remember one otherwise lazy summer afternoon when business reached a pitch and I ran out of popcorn and had to get another batch going. My aunt Judy, who lived with us and who came home on the handy bus around 4:00 had just arrived and the driver bought a lemonade and popcorn. She waited patiently. A young couple stopped and picked up lemonades, I served them while the handy bus driver stood aside: "There you are...popcorn will be just another moment...oh, hello sir, what can I get you..." another guy stopped for a glass and then I ran back into the house and got the popcorn out so the driver could be on her way. Then the lull came and I felt very satisfied. I think I made $20 for the summer (that's net profit - I think I spent another $20 on a new popcorn popper for the next season).
Being an adult food vendor comes with more stress obviously. It's hard to establish yourself, and it's hard to go for long making $20 profit for the season. I do expect to do better than that, but business is slow at many Canadian farmer's markets.
We have been doing a market in our area and selling Chinese buns. The cabbage above is used for the filling, as is the smoked, cured pork we raised and prepared and the eggs we get from our hens.
I have also been selling egg tarts with organic cream and homemade pastry. Business is not booming, our products are not quite flying off the table, and there are no lineups, but we have gotten some good feedback about the pleasantly intriguing tastes of our food. One customer said: "These are awesome!" That was nice.
I was a lemonade vendor as a child. I didn't have to have a permit for the stand I had at the end of the sidewalk. I can remember one otherwise lazy summer afternoon when business reached a pitch and I ran out of popcorn and had to get another batch going. My aunt Judy, who lived with us and who came home on the handy bus around 4:00 had just arrived and the driver bought a lemonade and popcorn. She waited patiently. A young couple stopped and picked up lemonades, I served them while the handy bus driver stood aside: "There you are...popcorn will be just another moment...oh, hello sir, what can I get you..." another guy stopped for a glass and then I ran back into the house and got the popcorn out so the driver could be on her way. Then the lull came and I felt very satisfied. I think I made $20 for the summer (that's net profit - I think I spent another $20 on a new popcorn popper for the next season).
Being an adult food vendor comes with more stress obviously. It's hard to establish yourself, and it's hard to go for long making $20 profit for the season. I do expect to do better than that, but business is slow at many Canadian farmer's markets.
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| 2014 - Harrowsmith Market |
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| 1990 - Jonny's Lemonade, Lethbridge (from left to right: Brother Patrick, Schoolmate Reilly, and Jonathan at Right) |
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