Author Topic: Farm Gate Sales...  (Read 23506 times)

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: Farm Gate Sales...
« Reply #30 on: April 18, 2012, 09:41:11 pm »
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...
Little Blue

MAK

  • Joined Nov 2011
  • Middle ish of France
    • Cadeaux de La forge
Re: Farm Gate Sales...
« Reply #31 on: April 21, 2012, 03:07:25 pm »
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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Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: Farm Gate Sales...
« Reply #32 on: April 21, 2012, 04:25:35 pm »
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.

MAK

  • Joined Nov 2011
  • Middle ish of France
    • Cadeaux de La forge
Re: Farm Gate Sales...
« Reply #33 on: April 21, 2012, 07:24:11 pm »
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.
www.cadeauxdelaforge.fr
Gifts and crafts made by us.

 

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