| to be successful you need to be consistant. By that i mean you need to show up to do business week after week. farmers markets are an excellent venue for doing this Garage sales because they are occasional are not great venues to get started and get your name out. Plus people expect you to drop your prices at garage sales so you will not be able to ask and get the highest price possible and face it if you start selling what you grow you should have a business mindset about what you are doing and a part of that is to make a decent profit. I do a huge 5 day garage sale each year (The 127 Yard Sale, the world's Longest) and I have a farm stand. I find that while my produce sales do go up, they usually triple but the traffic through the store is up by about 500x (yes I said 500x) so you can see the produce and tropical plants I sell at this event are not the draw. I find people go to garage sales to look for things other than farm products. Thus farm products do not sell well. But at a farmers market people are looking for farm products thus things should sell well at such a venue All that said since you have a series of sales set up why not try it, you really have nothing to lose other than several weekends sitting around at garage sales with friends and family (not a bad way to spend time at all) |