Funny you should ask that... I now will be selling at a table at the Farmer's 'sustainable' market in town. Though I won't sell much produce. Just a few left over squash or cukes or something once in awhile. Mainly, I will be selling the items I jam from my garden. I also will be selling some flowers from my perennial beds... so now I will be measuring those flowers as harvests for market. THOUGH, I am already harvesting flowers (honeysuckle, roses and clover) to make jams out of. So I have to measure them and price them on 2 levels.
My main concern is what I produce for US though, and since I won't be selling a lot of my produce... I will be enjoying what I make from it in the kitchen.
But just to fill people in on some new updates and not EVERYTHING I wrote on my messy messy sheets I printed:
My strawberries (which are everybearing and will bear me fruit at least 2 more times before winter) are done for spring and I managed to get 8 lbs and I probably jarred and jammed about 6 lbs of that. 2 lbs went into baking. Anything eaten fresh in the yard, and I'm sure there was a lb or 2 for that, I did not weigh.
I have harvested 'fresh' onions for eating right away and not storing, mainly because some flowered and were not good for storage onions. I have managed to harvest and use 4 lbs of onions that I guess you would call green onions, but they were HUGE bulbs. Either way, I like fresh onions the best... they are extra sweet and no tears in the cutting process.
Best of all, after pricing at the store... I've managed to get and use a simple $20 worth of herbs out of my garden. I never even bothered to price the sprigs I've given away!!!!
Anyways, I know I've made my money back and some after last year... but when you are living on food stamps, and you're family is not working (and I mean My husband, myself, my sister, my dad, my mom, my uncle, my brother and my best friend) then a little food value goes a LONG way!!!!!!!
