Thoughts from the T-Shirt Lady

Well some of our fall crops are starting to come in. We have turnips and salad greens. The collards are not ready yet. And to be honest - we don’t know what kind of crop we will have of collards, as we still have not had any rain. Our area is in a drought situation - almost a foot below the rain fall we should have by this time of year. Of course, the weather man is predicting that we will have rain on Friday - but to be honest - that’s the same weather report we get each week - and nothing ever comes of it.

The selling of our fall crops is different that summer. During the summer, I was out at the stand all day, and my dh would pick several times a day to replenish our stock. During the fall - we have to rely on people either stopping by and ordering, or calling and ordering - because once you pick greens they have a tendency to wilt really fast and then the customers would not want them. That’s fine - since it gives me more time to sew and work on my web site and whatever else I’d like to do.

Did I mention that we sell eggs too? We have about 26 chickens, and are getting almost 2 dz eggs a day. So a couple of times a week, I wash the eggs and get them ready to sell. So far we’ve done ok, and have sold most of the eggs by the end of each week. Hope it keeps up - of course, the eggs will continue thru the winter - when nothing else will be available for sale. So we are just counting on the customers loving our eggs so much - there’s nothing as good as fresh eggs - beats any that you can buy in the store!