Having a successful homestead business isn’t any different than owning any other small business. You have to love it, be true, commit & LOVE your customers! You have to GO for it!
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Where do you buy your cartons?
Great info Patara – thanks for sharing your process :0)
Miss P, love all your videos and thanks you for teaching so much. We need to build a barn and would love to see a barn tour of your barn. Did you record your barn build?
Hey Patera, great video! How many laying hens do you currently have?
I personally don't sell my eggs mostly due to convenience and somewhat to the fact that people around here seem to think fresh organic eggs should be at stores pricing when those are rotten arsenic eggs
Great video! Would love to see more videos of your chickens!
<3 Love your video and your channel. Was sent here by Pure Living for Life to your "When homesteader's say 'I'm done'" video. Really eye opening stuff. Keep it up!
those eggs are so pretty
How long do you have your roo and hen shacked up together? I'll have a couple different roos and not sure how long they need to be with a particular hen breed.
Patara, how much do your egg cartons cost at your co-op?
I have a huge open market if I learn to milk goats and have honey bees. NO one does that where I live in 100 miles of me! I got it on the eggs. There is NO goats milk..we have to call it PET milk since it is illegal for human consumption. However, included in a CSA (also something we don't have here in 500 Miles!) box. How would you suggest I pack (inexpensive with packaging) of fresh milk or should I sterilize cheap mason jars and decorate them? What about gallon jars, they are expensive but I can use cheap plastic jugs but hey are plastic and many don't like plastic anymore. Any ideas?? I am determined not just to create a high quality sweet milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc but package it well for a long term farm business. I believe in doing it right the first time!
I am a city girl so I have to ask this question. how do eggs come in so many colours
I don't understand the thumbs down. This was a great video.
Patara, I loved this video!!! My question is how do you keep track of the eggs after you gather them? Do you put them in old cartons and date them to maintain freshness until you wash them and put them in new cartons? I have several people in the family who gather the eggs and they just leave the baskets on the counter. Sometimes, with having to go to work, it might be a couple days before I am able to put the eggs in storage contains and no one bothers to put any kind of date on the container after they bring the eggs in. Help!!!!!! I need to find a way to keep tract of the days the eggs are gathered and any ideas on getting the others to be more helpful with organizing the eggs?
Wish I lived near you. There is nothing like farm fresh eggs!!
I love that you can express how doing what you truly love — and sharing that love and care with your "customers" — that makes life rich!
loving your info. How is things going with your husband doing. prayers for him and your family.
I really enjoy watching your shows always like I was just wondering can you tell me how to get rid of ticks I have an urban farm well I'm trying but I have ticks I can't have chickens I wish I could do you have any alternatives I had to spray because every time I go out I get bit but I'd like to know for future what I can do
Tennessee lady, Great advice given with energy, passion and a smile!! Do your customers prefer mixed (colored) eggs in a carton or only same color eggs together?? Do you date your cartons? Thanks for posting!! S. Carolina
We are starting this on a smaller scale right now and I surely appreciate all of your tips! Chickens are amazing!!! <<<Understatement of the year, right there. lol
Ok, if your bringing eggs to Knoxville, can I please have access to your beautiful eggs? When and where?
Patara, Thank you for the video but I have an important question. How do you deal with the regulations the FDA has when it comes to selling eggs? See we had a place we were selling our eggs. They shut us down due to these regulations such as we didn't have the RIGHT license and we didn't grade the eggs. So currently our selling is shut down. We're eating a lot of eggs. lol We know we can get around these issues if we sold direct from the farm but we really don't want a stream of strangers pulling in all day long. Who could get any work done that way! Needless to say we are pretty bummed by all this. Not to mention knowing what and how to do something the FDA is regulating is a pain in the backside. Any wisdom you can shed on how you cope with this would be greatly appreciated.
I really miss collecting different colored eggs. There's nothing like natural colors, farm fresh taste and the shells do better for the garden than "factory" eggs.
Thanks for sharing.
I would love to have her as an inlaw…..
you are so awesome and have helped me so much!!
I loved this video and wish you and your chickies a blessed year. If I was in your area, I would certainly be a regular customer. Mobile, Alabama 5/24/'19
Love your videos. Way cool. Thank you …
Well said , Patara …! Top grade product .
Nice vid. Lots of good advice, for ANY business.