Design
Small and slow solutions. In the first instance, focus on herbs. Herbs can be grown in pots and sold easily at markets.
Small scale salad trials. Preparing a mirror site on the field for a prospective move, giving time to get drainage and soil improvement right.
Small scale salad trials. Preparing a mirror site on the field for a prospective move, giving time to get drainage and soil improvement right.
To Do List
- Familiarize myself with Country Market software and labels
- Construct herb list - iin order to keep viable - 50% common culinary - 25% medicinal - 25% dyers and other unusual.
- Look into added value herb products
- List standard salad varieties
- Investigate additional sala
Challenges/Limits
- I am working in a paid job for most of the day
- Therefore most of the work on the business will have to be in the evenings
- I can probably clear one day for the Country Market but that will mean longer hours on other days.
- Mail order/online sales would be a logical way to go in the early stages
Helps/Resources
- In terms of financial yield herbs provide good margins - plants can generate around £1 gross profit.
- Husband and children happy to help