selling home grown veg at the gate

balmaiden

Does anyone sell their homegrown veg at the gate?

We grow veg for our own consumption and either freeze or give away any that we can not use.

My Dh is taking early retirement at xmas and next year we plan to grow a lot more. Money will be fairly tight and I was wondering if this is something we could do.

Do you need some sort of license? Cant believe you do as you see so many in our area selling a few toms or runners etc.

I would imagine we would only earn a few pounds a week, but as we all know every little helps!!

katyk_2

Hi Balmaiden

Cannot answer your question and am really sorry to invade your thread but can you please tell me how to post a new thread? I am obviously being thick but cannot see a button allowing me to do so.

Hope you get some good answers to your question
Best regards

mumoftwo

Sounds like a great idea to me! Wish you lived near me, I would buy your produce! No idea if you needed a license, wouldn't think so

Pink.

Hi balmaiden,

You should get more help with this on the Greenfingered board as there are quite a lot there who have allotments so I'll move your thread across there later.

Pink

Pink.

katyk wrote: »

Hi Balmaiden

Cannot answer your question and am really sorry to invade your thread but can you please tell me how to post a new thread? I am obviously being thick but cannot see a button allowing me to do so.

Hope you get some good answers to your question
Best regards

Hi Katyk,

Sra has created a useful unofficial guide to MSE here. If you click on Thread (starting) there's a step by step guide on how to do it.

Pink

balmaiden

OK Pink,
but I have posted questions before on the greenfingered board but didnt get much of a response. I thought the dedicated old stylers may have given me more feedback.

Bal

Pink.

balmaiden wrote: »

OK Pink,
but I have posted questions before on the greenfingered board but didnt get much of a response. I thought the dedicated old stylers may have given me more feedback.

Bal

That's fine, How about if I leave it here until it drops down the Old Style board and then move it over to see if you can get any more help there.

Pink

balmaiden

Thanks Pink,

bal x

lbnblbnb

balmaiden wrote: »

Does anyone sell their homegrown veg at the gate?

We grow veg for our own consumption and either freeze or give away any that we can not use.

My Dh is taking early retirement at xmas and next year we plan to grow a lot more. Money will be fairly tight and I was wondering if this is something we could do.

Do you need some sort of license? Cant believe you do as you see so many in our area selling a few toms or runners etc.

I would imagine we would only earn a few pounds a week, but as we all know every little helps!!

We don't do this, as we live too far from the road, but I love the idea in principle. We get a lot of veg from such boxes beside the road, and have our favourites, e.g. the best one for salad leaves, or the best one for french beans. I hate to say it, but too often I see notices left by the gardeners saying that someone has taken veg without paying for it, or even taken what was in the jam jar - how awful, makes me really angry. Our favourite veg seller has a box with a smaller box within it with a slot for the money which is padlocked. It is also outside a friend's house who is usually at home so customers feel observed!

katyk_2

Hi Pink-Winged
Thanks for help - still not entirely sure how I managed it but new thread appears to have been posted.

Primrose

Not sure about a licence but if you phone the Trading Standards Department at your local council offices they will probably be able to help you. The other option is to see whether any small individual local trader shops near you would be prepared to buy your surplus. Obviously the likes of Sainsburys, etc. wouldn't be interested but a one-man band local shopkeeper might, especially if there isn't a greengrocer in the vicinity. I'm afraid that theft of vegetable or money is a possibility. To reduce the chance of this you could either stick up a notice on your gate saying Tomatoes, Beans, etc for sale. Please knock." Or put up a notice nearby saying "CCTV in Operation". Or slip a note through your neighbours' doors saying you have produce for sale. Our local neighbour sells eggs from her chickens and the neighbours are more than happy to buy her surplus. And they always pay her, whereas strangers might not.