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Katy-
I'm just following my long time dream, it just seems that things are falling into place one day at a time. It's just an amazing adventure to be able to get the opportunity to follow your dreams.
Oh... the young lady in that picture is an employee. She is a very ambitious 14 year old that came to us looking for a job.... Melanie, my girlfriend was taking that picture. Melanie is the one behind the design and the marketing and yes she has a good smile too!
As for the customers coming to the farm... it's not as bad as you would think. I have a barn where I keep all the eggs and a soon to be freezer full of meat. Everything is self serve so I don't have to be bothered with customers while on my days off or while I'm eating dinner, doing chores, ect. They come and get their eggs... leave their money... and go. It's best for not only us but the customers as well. Reason being they feel it's convenient to come and not have to worry that I will be there or not. Also they don't have to feel like they are intruding... customers don't want to feel like they are barging in on you as much as you don't want them bothering you when your eating breakfast. They respect our home and help themselves to the fridge and soon to be freezer.
So far, I have had nothing but good experiences with it and hope that the soon to be "meat freezer" will be a great self serve option too. In todays world it's all about convenience to people... any way a farm can make it more convenient, by all means do it. Your sales will reflect the convenience too... ever since we had a self serve fridge our egg sales have tripled at the farm. See at market we have to pay 4% of our gross sales, which is why we encourage farm buys.
Another option we do is the CSA, which is once every two weeks. They pickup two chickens and two dozen eggs and then I don't see them again for two weeks, again, it's a convenience thing. Customers that are apart of the CSA know that they have to pick up every other week on the designated day and make plans around that.
