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I have some soap to sell at a consignment store and craft fair. I’ve been struggling to decide what kind of packaging and labeling I should go with.

I’ve been really looking in to plastic shrink wrapping for protection and keeping the scent in. I’d have small samples for folks to try. But I feel like a lot of people don’t like unnecessary plastic. I’m on a tight budget so my options are a bit limited. I also don’t have a printer.

I believe it's the start of their season, and I'd love to know where to get some. all the fruits in the annona family are my favorite, but they are so difficult to get ahold of. I'm even planning on going to the paw paw festival in paw paw IL later next month to make sure I secure them.

This is the thread to ask questions of market manager/operators:

• What makes an application stand out?
• What gets an otherwise-good vendor rejected?
• How do you decide vendor mix and category overlap?
• What makes you invite a vendor back or not?
• What do vendors do that drives you nuts?
• What do your best vendors do differently?
• How do you think about layout, anchors and customer flow?
• What makes a market successful beyond attendance?
• How do you handle weather, cancellations and no-shows?
• What do you wish vendors/shoppers understood about running the whole market?
• Ask the question you are embarrassed to ask - someone else wants that answer too!

This is the thread to ask questions of vendors:

• What do you sell, and what kind of markets do you do?
• How did you get into your first market?
• What do you wish you'd known before your first season?
• Booth setup/display — what actually works?
• Pricing: what have you learned?
• Best market type / worst market type — and why?
• What makes you apply to a market again?
• How does weather, location or customer flow affect your day?
• What sells differently than you expected?
• What do you wish market managers understood about vendors?
• Ask the question you think is dumb, others probably have the same questions and someone here has probably seen it.

Hi all - pretty sure I fixed the major plumbing issues (restricted posting) but please hmu if you run across any issues, I’ll find an answer one way or another…
Anywho, I’m doing some desk work before I pack up and head to this afternoon’s market - any hot topics top of mind out there? Ask away and please post - we saw how this sub died without activity!
And the afternoon market info is the Ravenswood Farmers Market @ 4900 N Damen in Chicago.

Hi all - I’m Randy, the new mod for this sub and inherited the setting. I just noticed a backlog of “how do I post - it says restricted” messages, geez I wonder why this sub has been dormant!! If you have tried to post and sent a message - hit me up again - I’m working through opening things up but that may take a lil while!!

Hey everyone — I recently took over as mod of r/FarmersMarket, and before I start changing things around, I wanted to introduce myself and talk a little about what I hope this place can become.

First: everybody is welcome.

Farmers. Vendors. Makers. Market managers. Shoppers. People thinking about becoming vendors. People who plan their Saturday mornings around the market. People who wandered into one on vacation and bought the best damn peach they've ever eaten.

A good farmers market isn't just a collection of booths. It's a place where people gather, talk, ask questions, discover things and get to know the people on the other side of the table.

I'd love for this to become the virtual version of that.

Show us your market. Show us what you grew, made, sold or bought. Ask about pricing, displays, applications, market management, products, customer behavior, what's in season, what worked at your booth this weekend or why the market down the street seems to be thriving while your market lags.

And there are no markets without SHOPPERS: you're every bit as much a part of this as the people under the tents.

First and foremost, though, I want this place to be useful.

I've searched Reddit for farmers-market answers four or five times just in the last few months and found crickets. Let's change that!

If you have experience that can help somebody, share it. If you've got a question, ask it. If something works at your market, tell us why. If something doesn't, that's useful too.

And disagreement is fine. Just bring something to the conversation.

Want to talk about farmers-market prices? Absolutely. But show us the organic apples at the market to the comparable organic apples at the grocery store. Now we've got something interesting to talk about.

Different markets, regions, products, farmers, vendors and customers operate under wildly different circumstances. That's part of what could make this community useful.

I'm still figuring out what this place should look like, and I'd rather build it with the people who use it than show up with 37 new rules on day one.

So say hello. Tell us where you fit into the market — what do you grow, make, sell, manage, shop for, or just love finding?

Let's get da market open!!🐮🔔

Has anyone seen actual sourcing from a tallow brand? All I can find on the sites I’ve looked at are “local” plus all the right buzz words, but haven’t seen an actual ranch or ranches listed unless the ranch itself is selling the products?

I started caring a little more about my skin lately so I’ve been scrolling around a lot of the “skincare” subs. I rarely see soap mentioned as part of a “routine” unless the post is soap specific.

I’m a mid 50s guy so I’ve never really had a routine - wash and maybe slap some lotion on any dry spots… as I’m researching adding a cream or a balm, I still feel like my soap has the biggest impact on all my skin but that never enters the conversation? What am I missing here, is it just a distinction between a face soap vs a body soap?

I want to make a stuffed dog that looks like my plott! My sister has the skills but we can’t find brindled type fabric…anyone ever come across fabric that could work?