OK, OK, I know it. I don’t use this blog very often. I run in spurts. There have been times I have blogged twice in one day and now this time there has been a few months that I have not blogged at all. I admit that I do use Facebook a lot and The Verba Farm @ Williams Point does have a group account there. That does not excuse that I don’t use this one very often anymore. I vow to try to blog more here, as well as other places.
Yesterday we took part in the first ever Bethlehem Vegfest at the Greenway in Bethlehem, PA. We had no real expectations of what was going to be there, as it was the first one they ever did. We would have been happy and not surprised if 15 vendors showed up and 200 customers. We were very surprised when there appear to be about 150 vendors and more likely 5000 customers. We had a very successful day. We sold a lot of produce, but beyond that made a lot of very valuable contacts.
If the contacts work out (and it is UNLIKELY that they ALL will) then we will have a winter home for selling produce year round, we will have a customer that is a local restaurant that wants our produce in their line, we will have added a signature tea blend that will carry “The House of Bickert Blend” as its name, we will be supplying a gift house with hand woven Holiday gift items the Chuck produces, we will have an impact against agri-business and making sure small businesses have a bigger part of the food industry. All that in one afternoon. It is tough being a produce superhero.
The weather was near perfect for the event and we had a great time. Can’t wait until next year to do it again.
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