Oregon Fall Poultry Swap - October 22 - Corvallis @ the Fairgrounds!!!

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Daze and K7 and I will need to bring some MFCs. I could have sold them 10X over. Get your girls working!
 
Oh, I'm definitely in!
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It'll be closer to home, so that will help. And it'll be after jam season, so I should have a good batch. I was so glad my cinnamon boysenberry sold so well! A bite of cookie and folks pulled out their cash!
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And this time, I might bring more crafts... but also I will bring an assistant! I want more time to visit, too!!!

I'd be happy to help, too, if there's something I can do. Thanks, ZooMummzy, for leading this!
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Yeah, everyone kept coming up to me and asking, "Are these your birds?" and I said, "I wish!!"
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Maybe the next swap needs to be modified in these ways?...

1- Make it an over-night, camp-fire, slumber-party thing, so we can get our fill of chatting and story-telling together.

2- Hold it at one of our farms, to facilitate the bird-brains' (myself and my birds included) comfort and relaxation.

3- Make food part of the event?

Next year or in the future I would be more than happy to host a swap, if peeps do not mind coming all the way out to the lovely Olympic Peninsula. We have plenty of room for all the tents and campers on 5 private and half wooded acres. We will have our greenhouses up soon, with tons of fresh food available for the event. We raise meat, so we could have a big feast too!

Everyone is welcomed to stay several days and explore the area. We have hotsprings, emerald mountains, giant old growth trees, collossal moss, Orcas whales (our neighbor owns the whale-watching boats in town, his father was the first whale watcher on the Pen and now the son owns the business- if there is interest, we can charter the boat and make a day of it). There is no shortage of things to do here!

We have plenty of water and electricity for everyone. We will have out-door showers and a hot tub by then too. I know we are a bit out in the boondocks, but it is a nice drive and we have the run of the place!

For reference, we are about 12 miles west of the Hood Canal Bridge and 20 miles south Port Townsend. If you are looking for our where-abouts, google the Hood Canal Bridge, that will give you the idea.
 
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I agree with all those things but after seeing the walk by traffic we all enjoyed yesterday, private farms and places are not going to move our birds, so to speak. Public spots will and the fall swap is notorious for being "difficult" in the sales category. I know I head a lot of "I could have sold these 5 times over". I had a lot of people from the Easter Egg hunt or drive bys that saw my cheesecake sign and stopped. I think it all depends on the direction you want to take this event. Do you want it to be public or do you want to make it a private internal swap. My personal opinion is we should utilize these offers for private farms/locations for get-togethers away from the swap so we can all do the socializing we want and keep the swaps as public as we possibly can.
 
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AH HA, I get you! We have a farmers' market right down the road (land and building owned by a neighbor on the other side of us, hehe), we could use that for our sale. It is at a 4-corners and does very well.

We are remote, compared to Portland, certainly. Just brainstorming...
 
I am always available to organize or assist with a Vancouver - SW WA swap. I would like to see a swap in this area maybe in earlier in the season for those who have peeps and hatching eggs to sell as well as the more mature birds. If you really want food I may be able to talk my DH into manning the pig roaster.. it cooks up to 100lbs in record time.
 
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Brainstorming is great! It's what we do at the beginning of these threads so keep it going! After the fall swap, we start the spring one down south lol...it's never ending
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And yep, that is another plus to hold the swap at the fairgrounds - the Saturday Farmer's Market is still going on and people are out and about. The fairgrounds is perfectly located between Corvallis and Philomath and outlying rural communities so the traffic is nonstop. We've also had a couple businesses say they could help us out in different ways if we hold it there. Just things to think about... I don't know about everyone else, but I enjoyed coming home with only the birds I planned on bringing back and selling my goods
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Makes my husband more ok with my hobby
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