Another extraordinarily hot weekend to end June. The temperatures were in the mid to high 90’s and the humidity not far behind. Sunday morning a cell or rain came through the sales area around 8:30 but was gone as quickly as it came.
Chuck and I had a fantastic weekend of sales. We were concerned as we had not gotten as much as we would have liked to get, but prices on some items were not going to make it easy to sell in our market.
We had a decent Saturday, but Sunday was really excellent. By 9:00 AM we were sold out of potatoes, by 1:00 the zucchini and cucumbers were totally gone. Requests for lettuce and beets had to go unanswered, as we never had either this weekend. We did face the age old sales dilemma of ‘what we had last week, people wanted this week and what he had this week was what people asked for last week’.
By the end of the weekend we had about 12 apples, 10 heads of cabbage and three boxes of beans left. Not at all bad from what was a truck load on Thursday afternoon.
An added note is that we saved all the scraps of dropped beans, bruised apples, browning cabbage leaves etc for the chickens. I was surprised to see how fast they attacked the apples when we gave them out for their lunch. Also noted they are beginning to have a pecking order. Some ate first while others waited.
Next week we hit the 4th of July Holiday weekend.
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