The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: holz306 on April 15, 2012, 06:57:27 pm
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So, what does everyone sell at their farm gates, and what rules and regs do you have to comply with and what are your prices?
I currently sell eggs, i don't have to comply with anything selling them this way, other than to register that i have over 50birds. I also sell bagged Manure. The eggs are £2 per half dozen (totally free range birds) and the manure is £2 for bags that are around 25-30kgs
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Having no farm gates left to sell , i don't sell anything now . I may start doing car boot sales , but most cars i see already have boots , so that may be a loser too !
As for complying , erm nope not guilty , i don't !
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Just eggs.
£1.70 FOR A DOZEN!!!!!! Some people around here sell for £1.50. Ive just put my price up this year.
No passing trade and most people have hens. :(
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I sell eggs to the shop for £1.30, to anyone else for £1.50, but just back from Asda where they see their free range eggs for an astonishing £1.90. Shocking.
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wow...my eggs are expensive!! but then free range eggs in the co-op here are £2.10 half dozen, and they're nowhere near as good....and i have to drive a 160mile round trip to buy their feed. everyone is delighted with the eggs and it was actually the customers that suggested that mine were way to cheap at £1.50!
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Dizzycow- is that for a dozen or half dozen?
I agree. Our eggs are much better than supposed free range from the supermarket. But few customers here and lots of people have hens!
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For the first time, I sold eggs at the gate over the weekend. I charged £1.50 for half a dozen, either duck eggs or pretty hens eggs (each box has cream, light brown, very dark brown and blue in it).
I put an honesty box (labelled as such) and had no problems, sold four dozen and everyone paid for them :)
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£1.50 - £2 for 6 (depends who I'm them to, loyalty is important to me!!)
They're organic but not free range (foxes, dogs, poor fencing next door) & people say they are the best :thumbsup:
Some of them are enormous too (the eggs, not my customers! ;) )
Duck & quail eggs the same, its easier ::)
I sell to friends & family, at the gate, at work (I ask/remind via facebook sometimes!)
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We sell them for a £1 and to friends 80p (breaks even) the trouble is we have lots of people with chickens around so hence the low price.
I will say this covers the cost of the birds and feed etc, if you forget of the initial set-up cost of coop and electric fence.
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we sell for £1 for 6 hens only
the turkey eggs we eat, or incubate..... some friends have them to try burt they usually get them for free
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I sell for £1.00 per half dozen from the farm gate. I am registered for more than fifty hens, have to use new boxes and not grade the eggs by size.
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£1.50 for 6 hens, £2 for 6 duck. :)
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I don't sell mine at the gate as we are no where near the road! however my neighbour who is on the road does he charges £2 half a dozen £3 a dozen however he has just given me 20 of his hens as sadly people kept stealing the eggs so he now only keeps enough hens for himself and the holiday cottages he has,there is also a lady around the corner who sells jams and chutneys but the same thing happened people kept stealing them,its only in the last year this has happened.Such a shame.
I'm very lucky in that i go to dog training ever week and that's were i sell mine all to friends,i charge £1 a half dozen £2 a dozen,
If i didn't get the feed wholesale price then i would prob charge a bit more,but im glad i can rid of them all rather than they get wasted.
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I sell eggs at the gate - hen eggs £1.50 for 6, bantam eggs £1.20 for 6
I also sell surplus garden produce but sporadically, and jam when I have it. I don't sell chutney because it takes SOOooo long to make and I keep it for the family.
I sell sheep meat, but not at the gate, just to a few regular customers.
I may sell plants this year if I have left overs.
Our really nice postie is forever wanting to buy our veggies but I don't like selling to him as he is a fit young man and could so easily grow his own (his parents have a huge garden), whereas I am in not the greatest health and really struggle to grow what I do. Seems all wrong letting an old granny grow his veggies for him :o :D ::)
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I sell hen eggs at £1.25 per half dozen and Duck eggs at £2.00 per half dozen.I usually sell fruit and veg when it is available too,jams,chutneys and pickles too though they do not sell very well around here,except my home made Bhut Jolokia and Naga Morich chutney,these sell like hot cakes excuse the pun! Strange as being in the middle of an traditional English Farming community. :)
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We sell our eggs - new price £1.20 for 6. Reason being, we are fairly cheap but have to compete with other smallholders selling at 90p for 6 only a mile away! People buy ours because we have mixed colours brown, white, cream and green but would be nice to boost our prices a bit - only thing is, once you put them up, can you drop them back down again if they don't sell or is it too late?!
We also sell plums in the summer months - prices comparable to other stores that year.
Goats milk soap (customers have to knock on the door for this as I won't leave it to the elements!) - prices vary from £2.15 - £2.50
Goats milk for animal consumption when we have too much too.
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Are there any rules/regulations for selling jams and chutney at the gate?
Selling meat? What are the rules?
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we were going to sell chutney from the gate..... rules a nightmare but we think when I rang we got someone new to the council!!!
she wanted us to send samples to a lab to work out sell by dates!!!
OMG its in vinegar AND cooked for ages and lasts!!!!
we went to local farmers market and asked them if they had all these things and they said no
so I gave up!!
Mx
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I once looked into the regs and was drowned by all the stupidity ::) I was told I would have to have a toilet for customers - a toilet? I only wanted to sell things from a box ;D :D I had to have parking and a Roads Dept assessment - or I would have done if I had gone ahead. With hindsight I think the council person I approached had got it wrong, but by then I had lost heart.
So now I advertise the eggs on a board and just pop other things into the box when I have them. I have fewer than 50 hens so don't need to be registered. To sell meat, it goes to the customer direct from the butcher. I deliver it in polystyrene boxes (which the butcher lends me) so I don't have to have a refrigerated van (I only do this once a year so a van wouldn't be possible). The meat does have to be slaughtered at an approved abattoir, and officially stamped. I don't think we make any profit really. We sometimes get people wanting to buy just the best cuts, but I only sell whole carcases or we end up with all the ribs and no gigot :(
Our roadside sales are in an honesty box and everyone seems to be honest :thumbsup: Once or twice I have thought maybe someone didn't pay but next time they pass they leave the money - keen to get the eggs before someone else does, but no cash available :)
We live on a very minor road with little traffic until the rush hour when it becomes a bit of a rat run. We don't have much for sale, so the amount of passing and local traffic provides enough customers. Friends are setting up a much bigger venture a few miles away on a main trunk road and have offered to stock our produce, but I think we will carry on as we are, with our loyal customers.
Manian - a friend sells quite a lot from her gate and has had to be visited by the hygiene folk, recipes checked, freezers tested etc. I couldn't be bothered with all that. Maybe I shouldn't offer any jam for sale (the people who buy it can always ask at the door)
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when i contacted environmental health to ask about farm gate sales of jams and chutneys and she said it was a case of they come and inspect the premises, and i have to list ingredients and dates....i haven't done this yet, but it did sound pretty simple considering it was involving local authority ;)
does anyone do farmgate sales of meats? i'm about to get my first pigs and would be interested to know how anyone sells there meats and what rules surround it - i'm guessing that if its slaughtered and butchered properly then i can sell it frozen from my freezer? or is this another no go area....?
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would be nice to boost our prices a bit - only thing is, once you put them up, can you drop them back down again if they don't sell or is it too late?!
Just put out a sign saying
"bargain price, for a limited time only!" then take it down & put the price up! ;)
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would be nice to boost our prices a bit - only thing is, once you put them up, can you drop them back down again if they don't sell or is it too late?!
Just put out a sign saying
"bargain price, for a limited time only!" then take it down & put the price up! ;)
love it ;) Having just shovelled 3 barrow loads of goat manure to various places in the field I'm wondering if I could sell that too :thumbsup:
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Go on, I dare you!
Bagged up - no problem
I give my parents small bags of chicken manure (matured & non-offensive!) :D
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I give my parents small bags of chicken manure (matured & non-offensive!) :D
I wish my parents were ;)
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;D
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Too much do and don'ts for me to bother with selling at the gate. When working at the hospital the nurses buy my eggs but i only have 12 hens so not a problem. keep meat for ourselfs. at one point I did think about doing more but all the red tape put me off.
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I give my parents small bags of chicken manure (matured & non-offensive!) :D
I wish my parents were ;)
:D :D that's not quite what I meant!
If its not one thing ... its my mother!!
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Have you tried selling her at the gate?
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Don't think my dad'd be too happy
.... besides, there's no market for 'em!!
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do you charge the same price for Quail eggs ?
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do you charge the same price for Quail eggs ?
I do, on the basis that 1) they might be small but they are higher value - ever paid shop prices for them?!
and 2) I can't add up very well! ;) so its easier if I charge the same price...
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After our move last March and unpacking I visited our "dangerous barn" - I draw blood whenever I go in it.
I was met with a sign the OH had unpacked.
FREE RANGE EGGS.
2 problems.
1, We live in France
2. I can count the number of people who drive through the 4 houses in our hamlet - maybe 8 a month.
3. The two people who walk their dogs past us once a month have their own chickens.
So - we give our eggs away to neighbours and they give us their produce when they can.
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That's a far more satisfying way, MAK. I sell chicken eggs for £1-20 for six, duck eggs for £1-50. Pork I sell to a restaurant straight from the abbatoir, also to friends and neighbours. My sister and I also sell preserves and surplus veg.
Family get eggs and meat at cost price, my children get them free. So, I don't make more than a few quid profit but we get ours free or next to.
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Yes Sylvia it is nice being accepted by new neighbours and the only working lad gives me straw, wood and kills our pigs for free. That said I would like to do what you do and maybe see a few coins in my hand. Having a restaurant to sell to is a real bonus and could probably be a great reference if you expand your sales to others.