| It's been another busy month here at the newly incorporated Earth Heart Limited and we've been engaged in all sorts of the less fun bits of starting a small business, from registering with Companies House to employing an accountant, opening a business account and even setting up a card reader to receive payments! Mildly anxious email monitoring in anticipation of feedback from our pre-planning application for the Earth Heart glamp site has also been a feature of recent weeks... Surely it can't be long now?! |  The Earth Heart Kitchen, Garden and Craft Stall! |
 Bread, Cakes, Cookies and Jam... With Samples! It was a joy to see some familiar faces (would you belive we seem to have regular customers now!?) and exciting to make some new contacts too. We had a full range of sweet treats, fresh garden produce and handmade crafts with us, all of which enjoyed some sales; Nik even considered going home for more courgettes, chard, leeks and beetroot at one point, all of which totally sold out! So too the peanut butter cookies and raisin loaves though the carrot cake and apple and raspberry flapjacks were also top sellers. I don't tend to leave poetry books in the honesty box as they're just too vulnerable to damp and dust so it was particularly lovely to sell some copies of Heart Space too, and I may have to get the glass paints out again to replenish the crafts stock before long. I was so genuinely impressed with and grateful to everyone who came along on such a wet and muddy day, it's a real credit to the reputation of the event, now in its 7th year. I was as surprised at how quickly the soggy hours flew by as I was by the determined support of our customers, and can only imagine we'd have sold out by lunchtime had the sun been shining!
| Still, we've been keeping in touch with the creative vision and since my first pop up bakery at Dragons last month, we've been gently delighted by the trickle of interest in the honesty box whilst our cockles have been well and truly warmed by some very lovely interactions at the roadside with passers by who've stopped to browse and buy from our selection of vegan baking, organic veggies and upcycled crafts. In terms of footfall though, you really can't beat an organised event and last weekend we attended our first food fair! Held at the Workhouse in Llanfyllin, the frustratingly timed (very) rainy day failed to deter a variety of stall holders, artists in open studios, musicians and intrepid members of public alike from showing up as planned and making a day of it none the less!
 Yellow Courgettes Were First to Sell Out! I'll be back at the (wonderfully dry!) Dragons in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant next Saturday for another day of bakery pop up alongside the usual variety of local crafts and you can still find the Earth Heart honesty box, just 1 mile from the same village on the road to Penybontfawr. We've started to open most Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, come rain or shine, at least for the time being! However, I'm hoping my next update will be good news from the Powys County Council planning office, so please cross your fingers... and watch this space! |
RSS Feed
