Selling Crafts At Farmers Markets
Posted on Sunday, January 17th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Selling Your Crafts $14.65 Find profitable new outlets for selling your crafts. Selling crafts online is a successful trend, but this book explores so many other avenues for casual and active indie crafters, and teaches them how to work more efficiently, manage inventory, and find and utilize all outlets for selling their work. Clear, concise instructions on every aspect of selling crafts-from flea markets to websites- including: a Pricing your crafts and managing inventory a Creating an identity a Payment, shipping, and promotion a Selling venues (online, trunk shows, parties, fairs) a Tax and business management |
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Selling Your Crafts by Michaels, Chris Franchetti Edition , 0 $19.99 Find profitable new outlets for selling your crafts. Selling crafts online is a successful trend, but this book explores so many other avenues for casual and active indie crafters, and teaches them how to work more efficiently, manage inventory, and find and utilize all outlets for selling their work. Clear, concise instructions on every aspect of selling crafts-from flea markets to websites- including: ?Pricing your crafts and managing inventory ?Creating an identity ?Payment, shipping, and promotion ?Selling venues (online, trunk shows, parties, fairs) ?Tax and business management |
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Markets of New England $15.28 People across the country are discovering the immense pleasure that can be had by living a thoughtful life full of farm-fresh food and handmade possessions. This return to the "good life" is reflected in our country’s increasing interest in buying locally grown and produced goods, and there is no better place to ‘shop local’ than at neighborhood farmers’ markets and art events. With this in mind, Christine Chitnis has crisscrossed New England (Maine New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut) discovering farmers markets and crafts markets, sometimes stretching the concept of ‘markets’ along the way to include open studio days, a one-of-a-kind floating farmers’ market (held on a sailboat), a community heirloom plant sale, and a wide range of artisan events. Fifty of the most vibrant, unique and thriving events in the region are described and lavishly photographed. |
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Farmers` Markets Desserts (Hardcover) $42.04 The number of U.S. farmers` markets has grown by 20cover the past three years to nearly 5,300 nationwide. This collection of tempting desserts inspired by those markets and the farmers who share their produce there satisfies the sustainable shopper`s sweet tooth with more than 50 recipes for tarts, crisps, cupcakes, puddings, and more. Discover classics like Deep Dish Sour Cherry Pie and new interpretations like Tangerine-sicle Ice Cream. Featuring seasonality charts, `farmer journal` tips, and dazzling color photography to teach and inspire, Farmers` Market Desserts is the perfect gift for bakers, lovers of local produce, and all who share in the delights of the farmers` market. |
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Farmers` Markets of the Heartland (Paperback) $33.91 In this splendidly illustrated book, food writer and self-described farm groupie Janine MacLachlan embarks on a tour of seasonal markets and farmstands throughout the Midwest, sampling local flavors from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. She conducts delicious research as she meets farmers, tastes their food, and explores how their businesses thrive in the face of an industrial food supply. She tells the stories of a pair of farmers growing specialty crops on a few acres of northern Michigan for just a few months out of the year, an Ohio cattle farm that has raised heritage beef since 1820, and a Minnesota farmer who tirelessly champions the Jimmy Nardello sweet Italian frying pepper. Along the way, she savors vibrant red carrots, slurpy peaches, vast quantities of specialty cheeses, and some of the tastiest pie to cross anyone`s lips. Informed by debates about eating local, seasonal crops, organic farming, sanitation, and biodiversity, Farmers` Markets of the Heartland tantalizes with special recipes from farm-friendly chefs and dozens of luscious color photographs that will inspire you to harvest the homegrown flavors in your own neighborhood. |
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The New Farmers’ Market: Farm-Fresh Ideas for Producers Managers & Communities $21.63 As concerned citizens recognize that the vibrancy of urban centers goes hand-in-hand with the vitality of the surrounding rural areas, a farmers’ market renaissance is beginning throughout the country. Helping to increase local market success for both farmers and customers, this book serves as a three-part guide to marketing, being a resource for farmers or market gardeners selling their produce at farmers’ markets; for city planners or market managers in starting and building a market; and for community activists and city planners trying to foster appreciation for farmland while reinvigorating economic and social vitality in urban areas. Appendices cover insurance, customer surveys, farmers’ market profitability, and benefits of farmers’ markets. |
