Market Farming

["Errol Castens" <castens AT peoplepc.com>]

Liz Pike wrote:
> I didn't have enough Araucana eggs to make up complete dozens, so I put
one
> in each carton of regular eggs.  My customers loved 'em and the extra
touch
> ensured no one quibbled over my price, the highest at market.

The first year our farmers' market was open (2001), we raised a little of a
lot of things to help get it started. Since we were the only ones selling
pastured eggs (some of which we bought from a friend), we easily got $2.50 a
dozen and usually sold out; whatever we had left over, one of the finer
restaurants in town would buy @ $2.00 a dozen. We also included one or two
or three Araucana eggs in each carton, depending on supply, and called our
homestead "Green Eggers Farm."

Errol Castens
Oxford, Mississippi
Zone 7a