Independence Day

Another weekend of selling in 90 degree weather.  I guess that is what is to be expected, as it is July.  Chuck had a soft sale day on Thursday, better on Friday.  That did cause some concern as we were gambling on a really big Holiday Sales Weekend.  The corn was the biggest gamble, as we paid out the maximum we were allowing ourselves on that and bought a bit more than we planned.

Saturday it all turned around.  The sales were higher than expected and the corn turned out to be a really big seller even at the $5.00/dozen price point, which is higher than we like to sell it.  The winning element was that we were the only vendors at Blue Ridge to have corn this weekend, so anyone who wanted it, bought it from us.

Saturday I was able to make a deal on some peaches, grown locally, pesticide and chemical free.  A slight gamble, as we only would have Sunday to sell them.  It was a make or break sales day for peaches.

Sunday started out strong and by 10:00 AM we were sold out of corn. YEAH !   Soon after we sold out of the peaches.  Not long after that the plums went, as did the zucchini and squash.  Onions were in that mix somewhere.  

When we looked at what we had a noon, we realized that after bringing a full truck load of locally grown, pesticide and chemical free produce to market we were left with 20 cabbages and 4- 1/2 peck baskets of new potatoes.  When we decided to call it a day at 1:00 (two hours early, as we had so little) we had just 8 cabbages and 2 baskets of potatoes. 

We gifted our neighbors, Todd and Shirley, at the market, with a cabbage and basket of potatoes, and did the same for my sister, Nancy, on the way home.  So we ended the day with 3 cabbages.  Not bad at all (btw, called cousin Diane who will buy the other three cabbages tomorrow, when I see her)

The percentage profit margin we did this weekend was nearly the highest, if not THE highest.  I have to check last years cantaloupe and corn weekends when we were high.  The dollar gross wasn’t bad either.

End result was that the corn gamble was a winner and the peach gamble was also a winner.  WEEKEND 3 is now history and we are on to a shortened WEEKEND 4, as we will be closed on July 11th for a personal day off.