Bye Bye Market

Today was the last farmers market.

But nobody showed up.

Haha.

George said he would be there with

his vegetables.

But no show.

Mary and Dave said they would be

there with their veggies.

But no show.

Norman was there with some tomatoes.

And we were there with our freeze

dried stuff and the last few zucchini,

yellow squash, and a few lemon cucumbers.

The cows are STILL out.

(Troy, the owner, isn't responding to anybody...)

(Hope  he's ok...)

(But I don't know who he actually is, or 

anything about him except his name and

phone number and he doesn't take care

of his fences... grin.)

Anyhow.

They have been picnicking at our farm

every evening. 

They ate all the cucumbers AND the plants.

All the zucchini.

All the spaghetti squash plants and many

of the squash (or they just walked on them...)

The only thing they didn't mess with was

the okra.

I guess they don't like okra.

But that means we are DONE.

Anyhow.

In the first 30 minutes a lady bought

1 cucumber and 1 yellow squash for $1.

And then about an hour later a man

came by and bought 4 yellow squash

and insisted in giving me $3.

And then Wanda came by and bought

a zucchini for $1.

That was it.

So we gave up, packed up and left.

And then Tracy (a customer) came over

and bought 3 bags of peaches, 3 bags of

mango and all my skittles.

(I don't like skittles, so I poured them all

in one bag because I needed the jar they

were in and I sold her the bag for $5.)

So we made a total of $28 for the day.

And then I dumped all the little black bags

into big gallon-sized mylar bags and

put them in crates until I can buy another

tote to keep them in.

I marked the outside of the bag with

what was in it, what weight to use to

fill a little black bag, and the price.

That's all of it, in those two yellow

milk crates. Plus the empty white trays

and the sample jars above.

We will just pull out the sample jars

now and again and eat them as treats.

I'm glad to be done for the year though.

We made just under $1,000.

(We spent a bunch of it, bought some

things from the other vendors, like

apples, tomatoes, peppers, eggs,

and a bird house...)

but I think we did pretty well considering

we started late,

didn't really know what we were doing,

and were mostly just having fun and

getting to know some of the folks in town.

So I'm calling in a WIN.