all right so welcome check it out today is a big day for us at the farm
we have our annual plant sale and in this show i want to tell you about why
it's a really smart way to start the season having an annual class
before i go and doing my deep dive i want to tell you if you want to really learn some of
the basics some of the fundamentals we have a cheat sheet on the link below you can check it
out giving you five key strategies when you want to do this there's three reasons why
we do these plant sales a year and this is i think this is our 17th plant sale
and as you see it's really picking up it's the first morning it's early
saturday nine o'clock and the first reason why we're really big on this strategy
is because uh it allows us to have stuff for our first markets
having seedlings uh having all of this that we bring at the market is you know when we don't have
a lot of veggies from the fields we don't have a lot of veggies from the greenhouses yet allows us
to fill our tables so you know we have that in mind and because we're growing those seedlings
for market we thought you know why not just bring more people here for one weekend here at the farm
and invite them i invite the home gardeners to come and and buy seedlings from us directly
and that's really the second reason is that it allows us to connect with our community
and there's a lot of home farmers here home gardeners that are coming down and
you know we get to meet them year in year out we get to say hi and it also prompts us because you
know they come and they see the farm opening it up and for a lot of these home gardeners
they're passionate about growing and then you know it's an opportunity for us to share some
of our tips some of our tricks but we get a lot of love from all of this really because
i think people really admire what we do and just having that many people come down and kind of
give us that that love is is something that feeds us even though it's a lot of work to set up
it's definitely worth it but i would say the main reason why this plant sale for us is good is
because of cash it's a really great way to make money early in the season
you know by growing about 30 percent more of everything that we're already growing in our
in our greenhouse and nursery we can make you know weekends of 10 000 and plus
and so for us that's a great way to start the season when we don't have a
lot of veggies in the field and it's worth it it's not complicated we're really good
to grow all of these the setup as you'll see is not too complex people come in people buy
there's a lot of tricks about how to optimize this i told you about the cheat sheet that you
can download but a few quick pointers just because we're here for us like having all the plants at
the same price really facilitates when it's time to you know do the tally at the end if people have
10 20 15 20 plants they're all the same price so it's easy to add it up so we can serve a lot
of customers without spending too much time at the cash box you know accepting cash and
having as much cash as possible i think is good but i wanted to show you these tables
this is a trick that we got from a neighbor farm some market gardener friends of ours
these are tables that are half the length and it's real easy to stack them and it's really easy to
move them move them inside and outside the nursery because you know two people can walk in the doors
and so a lot of our starts are like that so you know because the plant sail if it's a cold night
we want to bring them inside ring them out so just moving the material is uh that's a great
great little trick besides that just like praying for a sunny day which is what's happening today
the plant cell is also an occasion to bring in elements that gardeners want tools seeds shout
out to dan brisboa tornasol he has a great podcast on seed growing check him out dan is
dan is the guy great seed company from from quebec here but all in all this is just an amazing day
having all these people come and visit the farm is a great occasion for us to connect
it's an opportunity for us to put some money in the bank early in the season and all in
all it's just like a quick hit and run we do it it's a lot of work to set up but it's worth it
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perhaps never done it thinking about doing it the intro course would tell you what market gardening
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so check it out all the information is on the website so all in all this is it for
this week i hope you guys are well i hope things are growing i hope we'll sell over
all our seedlings it's on the right track for that we're good you're good j i'm out see you next week
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