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bomberqueen17:
B-I-L has been migrating the farm’s accounting books to different software, with the help of real professionals.
He mentioned to me that he thinks we should update the website to allow online sales, though of course, he said, we won’t be able to ship anything, we could offer things for pickup on the farm or at the farmer’s market.
And I was like… why couldn’t we ship things? I mean, maybe not meat– maybe work up to that, I do know it’s possible– but a lot of things could be shipped.
Anyway. I’d been considering figuring out how to ship dried floral arrangements, and of course the holiday decor– wreaths, kissing balls, swags, and such– and the potpourri would be easy enough to ship that it’s dumb not to. But now I’m trying to think of other things.
I’m also starting to see Halloween Aesthetics on Tumblr already, so I’m considering making some little dried arrangements to sell as Halloween decor. I wonder if I could make the arrangements with fresh flowers and set them to dry now, and then they’d be ready for September?
That’s what I’m thinking about, anyway, to distract myself from the thought that summer is running away and I’m about to spend yet another fucking holiday season trapped at this fucking camera store.
I had to reblog because my comment was too long.
dried gourds are a Big Thing in certain markets for decorating. They’d probably ship well, but getting them dried and cleaned is a pain. Wheat weaving is also a thing. Small patches of wheat could probably be grown easily although you’d have to get some special boxes to ship them in. I just pulled those from my gigantic farm ideas page that I have. Most everything else requires a kitchen or something like that. although with the on farm processing you might be able to get something set up. that would be a giant pain in the butt I suspect.
Tiny dried arrangements would be neat. Maybe not worth the time, but like something hand sized would be super cute and nice. Plus they’d be easy to ship in small boxes.
We do a lot with like… pint-mason-jar-sized dried arrangements in winter, but we assemble those out of the big bundles we dry all summer, and it’s freezing and dark up there in the winter and Sister was just reminiscing about being up there in three pairs of socks and long underwear and jeans under her Carhartt coveralls and not being able to feel her hands while she worked. And I was like… I could just do them in the barn on like, a Thursday morning, and hang them up there and just take them down a few weeks later when they were dry, and package them to sell later.
Gourds! Good thinking on gourds. I dunno if we’re growing any this year but it’s something to consider.
We have in the past saved armloads of wheat to make wreaths etc., but it’s never amounted to much. I haven’t heard of wheat weaving but I’ll look at it now. I don’t know if there’s any cover crop wheat out there anymore, but I’ll look. One of the farmstands up the road does wheat wreaths, and corn tassel wreaths, and we do have a big wreath table so it’s easy to do, but dried flower wreaths haven’t sold all that well up to now.
We did have a lady contact us to request specific dried herbs and flowers because she makes “smudge bundles” to sell on Etsy. (Specifically, ammobium.)
I really want to do some stuff that involves a commercial kitchen but that’s like. The ten-year plan. At this point I can’t even process enough stuff for farm use, let alone extra to sell, but sometime in the future I would like to be making, say, broth and pickles and such.
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unicornduke:
bomberqueen17:
B-I-L has been migrating the farm’s accounting books to different software, with the help of real professionals.
He mentioned to me that he thinks we should update the website to allow online sales, though of course, he said, we won’t be able to ship anything, we could offer things for pickup on the farm or at the farmer’s market.
And I was like… why couldn’t we ship things? I mean, maybe not meat– maybe work up to that, I do know it’s possible– but a lot of things could be shipped.
Anyway. I’d been considering figuring out how to ship dried floral arrangements, and of course the holiday decor– wreaths, kissing balls, swags, and such– and the potpourri would be easy enough to ship that it’s dumb not to. But now I’m trying to think of other things.
I’m also starting to see Halloween Aesthetics on Tumblr already, so I’m considering making some little dried arrangements to sell as Halloween decor. I wonder if I could make the arrangements with fresh flowers and set them to dry now, and then they’d be ready for September?
That’s what I’m thinking about, anyway, to distract myself from the thought that summer is running away and I’m about to spend yet another fucking holiday season trapped at this fucking camera store.
I had to reblog because my comment was too long.
dried gourds are a Big Thing in certain markets for decorating. They’d probably ship well, but getting them dried and cleaned is a pain. Wheat weaving is also a thing. Small patches of wheat could probably be grown easily although you’d have to get some special boxes to ship them in. I just pulled those from my gigantic farm ideas page that I have. Most everything else requires a kitchen or something like that. although with the on farm processing you might be able to get something set up. that would be a giant pain in the butt I suspect.
Tiny dried arrangements would be neat. Maybe not worth the time, but like something hand sized would be super cute and nice. Plus they’d be easy to ship in small boxes.
We do a lot with like… pint-mason-jar-sized dried arrangements in winter, but we assemble those out of the big bundles we dry all summer, and it’s freezing and dark up there in the winter and Sister was just reminiscing about being up there in three pairs of socks and long underwear and jeans under her Carhartt coveralls and not being able to feel her hands while she worked. And I was like… I could just do them in the barn on like, a Thursday morning, and hang them up there and just take them down a few weeks later when they were dry, and package them to sell later.
Gourds! Good thinking on gourds. I dunno if we’re growing any this year but it’s something to consider.
We have in the past saved armloads of wheat to make wreaths etc., but it’s never amounted to much. I haven’t heard of wheat weaving but I’ll look at it now. I don’t know if there’s any cover crop wheat out there anymore, but I’ll look. One of the farmstands up the road does wheat wreaths, and corn tassel wreaths, and we do have a big wreath table so it’s easy to do, but dried flower wreaths haven’t sold all that well up to now.
We did have a lady contact us to request specific dried herbs and flowers because she makes “smudge bundles” to sell on Etsy. (Specifically, ammobium.)
I really want to do some stuff that involves a commercial kitchen but that’s like. The ten-year plan. At this point I can’t even process enough stuff for farm use, let alone extra to sell, but sometime in the future I would like to be making, say, broth and pickles and such.
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