03/13/2025
To continue our throwback Thursday origin story, here we are at our very first farmers market ever!!
July 1st, 2021 we nervously set up this booth at the Port Carling Farmers market. We stayed up until 3am the night before making all the bouquets… we were so stressed and anxious. We hummed and hawed over every single flower placement taking nearly an hour to make each bouquet. In the end we had exactly 12 bouquets to offer. 6 large, 3 medium and 3 mini. For reference we now bring nearly 60 bouquets during busy season and can make all 60 in just a few hours!!
Once we were all set up, a man approached our tent. He was the husband of the flower farm who had also set up at this small market. He mansplained to us that our prices were too high and having himself done tons of markets (which we later found out was only a few) that we would never sell our product.. little did he know that only lit our fire. From the beginning we have been very aware of how much work it takes to grow, plan, harvest, market, package, set up, etc etc our product and have always valued its worth. We stood our ground and were so pleased when we sold out that day!!
We loved our community and support at the port Carling farmers market and got hooked to this avenue of sales! Leading us to apply to a bigger market the following year, and adding a second weekly market in year 3! You will find us again this season going into our fourth year of selling at the .farmers.market and third year at the .farmers.market and we cannot wait! Our booth is getting some love this season and we are so excited for what’s to come!
