Hi Kris. I encourage your attempts to sell small packs of meat. I don't eat as much meat now as I used to but when I do buy beef, I spend a little extra and get the good stuff. A lot of people are cutting back on meat consumption so they are more willing to spend more on quality product. Also, do you use social media to advertise your sales? Just a thought. Please forgive me if I have overstepped. I wish only success for your farming ventures.
Not overstepping at all! Thanks, and I agree completely. Andrew and I usually have one or two vegetarian meals a week, we could do more, but my mother was raised on the ideals of “meat and potatoes” for dinner. I’d rather have a cheaper cut of pastured beef than a grain-fed feedlot tenderloin any day!
There’s a Facebook forum for our island, which is where I plan on advertising my chicken when it’s ready, as for the Farm in general, they don’t seem to believe in any advertising, so I’m hoping to tag on an “also still available... pasture raised lamb and beef” when I do put an ad up.
Not a marketing genius here... but I do understand the basics of branding and letting people know that there’s a product available.
And thank you everyone for bearing with my various rants and venting... I try to stay positive but sometimes it’s just so frustrating, and the only person I can talk with about things is Andrew. Sometimes he thinks I’m blaming
him for his family’s idiosyncrasies (that’s the nice word for it) when really I just feel like I’ve been trying to drive my head through a brick wall for days in changing attitudes and ideas with them. I
am more stubborn though, and will eventually prevail, even if it takes years!
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