9.18am - Monday 4th April 2016 2,323

Your new customers are going to believe in your farm when they first taste your products. Even if they "know" that your farm is a good choice they are not going to believe until they try it.

I have converted many vegetarians at this point with how good my chickens are combined with how humanely I raise them. Good food sells if you can get it into the mouths of your customers.

When you're starting your farm you might want to consider creating samples for people to try. Cook up some beef, put honey on a stick, or make little sample bags of tea like Nicole did. Anything to get a little taste into that new farm customer.

The important thing to remember here is that there is no substitute for a quality product. If you give people garbage products, but it's from your local farm, then you've just given them local garbage and it might sour them to the local movement. Quality comes first, then getting your customers to try it, and then it will sell itself.

Visit Nick and Nicole at:
http://doublenurbanhomestead.com/

Visit me and Scott at:
http://farmmarketingsolutions.com/