Sample Sunday!

On Sunday we set up our farm booth at Prairieland Herbs and answered questions about our pork! It was lots of fun.

One of the ways we had the table set up. It changed throughout the day.

There was a tie dye station and a hula hoop demonstration and lots of good smelling things to eat.....our booth was next to Ebersole Cattle Co. and Shanen showed us the ropes, literally.  We met face to face some of our customers that we'd only known through facebook or through mailed checks! We sampled new soaps and scents.

Dawn the amazing hula hooper!

Things I learned that we need if we do this again: Samples. Duh. Sample Sunday? We are all out of our own pork until fall harvest so we simply had nothing to provide as samples.....except lard. So next time we will bake little apple pies or jam tarts and shortbread cookies made with lard. That was Chad's brilliant idea.

Shanen showing us the many uses of dry ice....

We also need a banner or poster for our farm name. Something that is upright and has large print. The name and description on the table did not draw people in the way that a large sign might? Also brochures with pictures, price data, and time lines would be good. I had not even thought of that until I saw Shanen's.

Next up, we will prepare for Farm Crawl 2010! I should have our cookbook ready to preview by then, I hope!