buying veg by the side of the road

Cabbagewhite

I was going to say about checking your allotment agreement. When we had one the terms stated that you couldn't sell the produce, which is in the standard allotment agreements (https://www.nsalg.org.uk). We actually took over an allotment from a chap who had been growing raspberries, strawberries and asparagus among other things, which he was using in his restaurant. When the committee found out they evicted him.

toni_

Tiffany_Aching wrote: »

Have to be honest with you - and do keep in mind that it may be different in your area - but round here windfalls tend to be put out in a box with a note for people to help themselves, so I personally wouldn't pay 50p for a bag of windfall apples!

As for your family getting free eggs Barter for baby sitting! :rotfl:

yea maybe ill do that, didn't know if they could be worth anything

didn't realise that we might not be able to sell surplus veg, I thought that was allowed, ill check our agreement now, the only thing we sell from our allotment is spare potatoes, everything else is grown on our veg patch in our garden

toni_

few, it doesn't say anything about not selling produce only soil would hate to loose the allotment we've worked hard on, there are only 20 odd allotments in a very little village, some of which are still unused

Bettie

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Be warned not everyone is honest.
Even though I keep the pricing really simple most days I'm missing some money!
More a 'not very' honest(y) stall!
Though I have sometimes got notes saying people didn't have enough change! Good luck! [/QUOTE]

Several years ago I was disgusted to hear two elderly ladies chatting and one said she gets her eggs free from someone that sells at the gate. She then showed her mate how she nicked a dozen. No one answered the door when I knocked so I went after her and I told her I'd seen what she'd done. She gave me the V. and walked on :mad:
This was in Watchet (in the South West )

catkins

I always try and buy eggs from people selling them from their houses. I hate having to buy supermarket eggs. I always buy free range but so many people have told me the eggs marked free range in supermarkets often aren't.

I live in Essex but Oh works all round the place - Herts, Lincs, Norfolk so if he sees eggs for sale he will almost always buy them (we eat lots!) or if we go for a drive at weekends and we see any w buy them. I also love seeing if people have fruit or veg for sale. I would much rather pay an ordinary person for lovely fresh veg than a supermarket. Oh and I have paid for cooking or eating apples quite a few times.

I have also occasionally seen jams and marmalade for sale. Bought some marmalade recently and it was gorgeous.

Emm-in-a-pickle

My veg man at the local farmshop often sells `surplus` from customers` gardens or lotties, as he knows many people prefer this produce to the commercially grown stuff. Some of this `surplus` he buys from individual growers, but others prefer a sort of barter account. Most of the runner beans I bought there last year were grown by a chap who brought them into the farm shop and was `paid` in grapes/bananas & other produce that he chose. Perhaps you could try approaching a local greengrocer with this idea?

hgotsparkle

lovefullshelves wrote: »

I'm in the Norfolk fens and I've gotta roadside stall, I charge 50p for everything otherwise poeple tend to 'not have the change' or 'couldn't see the price'.
Potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage, beans, kohl rabi, fruit, lettuce, broccoli, plants, cauli's, everything 50p!!
It doesn't seem to matter that people will pay 2 or 3 times the price in the supermarket, and I know my produce is probably a week fresher too!
Be warned not everyone is honest.
Even though I keep the pricing really simple most days I'm missing some money!
More a 'not very' honest(y) stall!
Though I have sometimes got notes saying people didn't have enough change! Good luck!

I'm new to norfolk, live near the brecklands, am I anywhere near you? Even if its 20 odd mile, I'll probably still be saving with prices like that!!

valk_scot

I used to be on our allotment committee and though we had a rule about not selling produce commercially, we took the view that selling odd bits of glut produce from a table by your front gate a few times a year didn't really count as "commercial" selling. Most of us traded surplus produce with neighbours for eggs or cakes or babysitting so a few 50ps here or there were just ignored. If we'd found someone was growing produce specifically to sell though they'd have got an immediate formal warning and, if they didn't stop, an eviction notice.

lovefullshelves

I'm a bit in the back of beyond near the sugar factory. Most of my customers are old ladies and gents who live in the surrounding villages!(and you're right, age doesn't equal honesty!) Not alot of passing trade but I've grown a reputation for veg that tastes good, not always pretty!
I do hate it when I can't sell things when I grow something different!
Uchiki squash today, 50p sposed to taste like butternut, bet I'm eating it soon!
hgotsparkle pm me if you wanna find me! though there's alot of little roadside stalls round here:)

arbroath_lass

lovefullshelves wrote: »

I do hate it when I can't sell things when I grow something different!
Uchiki squash today, 50p sposed to taste like butternut, bet I'm eating it soon!

You might get a few more sales if you posted a wee note beside them with instructions on how to cook. I'm assuming you put the name of the unusual stuff beside them.