[tizaala]

As long as trading standards don't interfere with the jam side of things , or you end up fitting a pro kitchen and having your house re-plumbed just to keep them happy.

[Olly398]

Good for you, let us know how this goes!

[Bodger]

Best of luck with your sales from the gate, if you live in the right spot, it really can work. I've got my first ' temporary events licence' to sell my cider 'over the gate' coming up on the 5th and the 6th of May. Having the right weather for these events is so vital. Will it be    or  ? Fingers crossed folks.

[Bionic]

I started putting eggs out with an honesty box last month. I didn't really expect to get any sales as there is no passing traffic but thought it was worth a try.
2 days later our first ever lamb was born dead and thats the day that the first £1 was put in the honesty box. Actually I thought OH had taken the eggs and put the £1 in there to cheer me up but he hadn't.
So far I have taken £18 in egg sales so I can't complain.It will certainly pay for some more chicken feed.
I hope you do as well.

[SallyintNorth]

There's a house way up in the hills about 7 miles from here, hardly any passing traffic as there are only a handful of properties further out than it.

But we all go up there to buy our eggs  (in our case when our own hens aren't laying and/or we can't find them  )  Yummy eggs, and a lovely quiet countryside drive to go get them.

It's all on the honesty box system; they charge £2 for 6.  They often sell out.  (So their regulars know when to go to be sure of not having to return empty-handed! )

[Daisys Mum]

  I put my eggs in a box on my doorstep and just ask buyers to put the money through the letter box. Had a couple of times when eggs have gone and no money but its always been put through either the next day or later that day. Its usually mums on their way to collect kids from school as they pass my door.

[simone]

Well rhubarb is popular - 3 out of the 4 bunches went, sold 2 bunches of daffs, so not so popular as I'd hoped - will be trying again over the next few days though, so thanks for the encouragement folks.

[tizaala]

Simone , the trouble with daffs is : most people have them in their gardens or grass verges, so to sell them you have to have them before anyone else does . grow them in a pollytunnel  to bloom in January before the glut. 

[renee]

Eggs for sale makes me think of my mother. Her hens have laid well through the winter. All of a sudden there were less eggs on a Sunday. She told me "Maybe the hens are having a day og rest" Now the hens live in a paddock across a public footpath 400 yards from the farm house. Just to be sure my mother started putting a paddlock on the henhouse door on a Sunday. Sure enough, the hens started laying again
Next time I spoke to my mother and she told me. " Well, I am thinking things one should't think on a Sunday ....AND...I am keeping a paddlock on the door." I mean, the cheek of it, pinching eggs from an old lady in broad daylight in a fairly busy village.

[SallyintNorth]

renee, that's shocking!  I guess each thief just thought, "Oh, they won't miss one, just for me for my breakfast..."   I'd have been inclined to electrify the henhouse door, never mind padlock it

[renee]

Oh, my mother has a marvellous sense of humour. What vexed her most was that it was happening on a Sunday.

[Olly398]

Hah, yes doing it on a Sunday takes the biscuit :-)

[OhLaLa]

..........all of a sudden there were less eggs on a Sunday. She told me "Maybe the hens are having a day og rest" ...................just to be sure my mother started putting a paddlock on the henhouse door on a Sunday. Sure enough, the hens started laying again...........

I've got one of those Infra-Red Trail Cameras for use down in the fields. Get one and set it up in some bushes close to the henhouse. You'd be amazed at what you see. You would certainly see exactly who is trying the hen house door!
 

[tizaala]

Leave a letter in the nestbox addressed to " The egg thief , We know who you are because we now have you on camera, If you come to the house and pay then we won't call the cops." 

[Bodger]

Then they'd probably nick the trail cam.