We had an interesting day today. We produce certified organic eggs for our organic co-op and we pull a number of jumbo and super-jumbo off the top for local sales from the farm. We have been asking $2/dz and sell quite a bit from the farm to our neighbors. Last year when the jumbo eggs were starting to pile up, my wife started a little egg route where once a week she would drive through the industrial park, stop at various businesses and sell to whomever would buy them. She was selling around 30 to 40 dozen a week that way and I was fine with $2/dz just as long as they sold and didn't go to waste.
She quit doing the route in late July when we got a new flock and told her customers that it may be a while before would we have enough jumbo eggs again for it to be worthwhile for her to make the trip into town. We had a large snow storm at the beginning of this week so people weren't stopping in to buy eggs and they were starting to pile up again. Today my wife decided to load up the truck and hit her old route. She told me before she left that she was going to charge $3/dz this year. I was kind of leery that she'd be bringing a bunch of eggs back that didn't sell.
She sold all 50 dozen that she had taken with her for $3 a dozen and said she could have even sold more... She said she was almost mobbed at some places with people wanting to buy our eggs. She said nobody even batted an eye when she asked for $3, they just kept saying that they had been wondering if she was ever going to come back as they really missed the eggs. Some commented that their kids were complaining about having to eat store boughten eggs. Others had said they had tried to call us to get eggs, but weren't sure which family we were in the phone book. She said even the most cantankerous of customers that always played the "hard sell" were glad to see her and gladly bought them at $3. She even got a few hugs from grateful customers...
Now she says people have been asking if we also do broilers and whether we are ready to take orders for spring...
She quit doing the route in late July when we got a new flock and told her customers that it may be a while before would we have enough jumbo eggs again for it to be worthwhile for her to make the trip into town. We had a large snow storm at the beginning of this week so people weren't stopping in to buy eggs and they were starting to pile up again. Today my wife decided to load up the truck and hit her old route. She told me before she left that she was going to charge $3/dz this year. I was kind of leery that she'd be bringing a bunch of eggs back that didn't sell.
She sold all 50 dozen that she had taken with her for $3 a dozen and said she could have even sold more... She said she was almost mobbed at some places with people wanting to buy our eggs. She said nobody even batted an eye when she asked for $3, they just kept saying that they had been wondering if she was ever going to come back as they really missed the eggs. Some commented that their kids were complaining about having to eat store boughten eggs. Others had said they had tried to call us to get eggs, but weren't sure which family we were in the phone book. She said even the most cantankerous of customers that always played the "hard sell" were glad to see her and gladly bought them at $3. She even got a few hugs from grateful customers...
Now she says people have been asking if we also do broilers and whether we are ready to take orders for spring...
