As I come up with different ideas, I will try to put them out for your consideration. I was thinking that I have already mentioned that we could sell bedding plants in the spring and this is a market that goes up through the month of June. This helps fill in some of the gaps that will be filled once cucumbers, squash, sweet corn, peppers, etc become ripe. But there is another product that we can sell, or that is, resell. We can purchase bulbs at wholesale cost already packaged for resale. This is a market that exists both in the spring and in the fall.
I was having a discussion with one of my sources of gardening supplies today and as we talked of selling bedding plants, he made the comment that people will buy tomatoes to plant, then come back and buy fresh tomatoes because the ones they planted did not do well.
Which brings me to another subject. I have a number of sources for seed, planting supplies, etc, but after comparing prices between all my sources, the source that consistently comes at the lowest cost is an Amish farmer. We have a tendency to think that the Amish are farmers with maybe a wife that sells baked bread, but this is a misconception. Earlier this year, when building a barn, I purchased my roofing nails from an Amish farmer who sold me twice as many for half the cost of a traditional lumber yard. Another farmer supplies me with shipping boxes at a very good price. And then the source that I referred to above has a $100,000 inventory and can supply me with almost any product at a very good price.
When you consider that we can buy fresh produce at their auction usually at a very good price, we will have an advantage from the very start.
Gerald
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