Here's our new farm market set-up.

It's working out pretty well and I am especially pleased not to have to hoist that freezer into and out of the back of the pick-up truck several times each weekend.

We're using the trailer as our summer sales room. This way we can keep stocking the freezer when we come home from the processor which cuts down on the number of times we have to handle product and saves us quite a lot of time.

The tile floor Aaron and I laid is easy to wipe up, the chalkboard painted walls are great for drawing attention to specials, there are numerous, conveniently placed outlets (thanks Stateline Electric) and we have space for 2 freezers so we can put package deals in one freezer and have a very generous selection in the other freezer.

We're adding a new farm market to our already busy schedule. The city of McDonald is starting a farm market on Tuesday evenings. If the Saturday market in Howland doesn't work for you, stop in and see us in McDonald on Tuesday evenings from 4PM until 7PM.

Howland Farmers Market

Tomorrow I have a meeting of the Howland Farmers Market Steering Committee. We participated in the market last summer and met lots of great people, established some contacts and had a fairly successful season.

We’ve kept in contact with some of those customers by establishing a monthly delivery to WineStyles which is across the street from the township park where the market is held. They’ve been very accommodating there, it gets a little more foot traffic for them and I’ve gotten some great wine information from the owner, Mark Rhodes.

The steering committee will be looking at logos, branding and some other ways to move the market to a new level. The group that volunteered to take this project on is such a great, interesting group of people that I’m really looking forward to sharing information and no doubt, getting some great marketing ideas for our farm.

Hopefully we’ll come up with some exciting things for the market season which I’ll be able to share with you soon.