Category: <span>Business on a Budget</span>

Foraging, Tea Sales, and Long-term Conundrum

Sitting here exhausted, but very pleased with today’s foraging run! We visited two zones today, both public access, and brought home over 20 pounds of foraged herb! Three of those herbs are integral to the tea business: nettle, alfalfa, and catnip. Of those three, the alfalfa is now closest to …

Got My FoodSafe Level 1 Certificate (and a few headaches)

So this weekend, I added a utility certificate to the mix. I now have my FoodSafe Level 1 Certificate! It will take 4 to 6 weeks to get to me on paper, but I have a temporary version they offered for download. Many people in the past have had to …

Flea Market Amazement, and Spring Outlook

So today was our third Sunday at the Rutland flea market, and a prayer partner is showing up each morning to say hi. The first day, he bought a tea and said to share it with others, and left us a tip. Last Sunday, he gave us a gift to …

New Year, New Path to Natural Health!

Approaching a new year always means assessing what worked over the past year, noting what didn’t work, and seeing what can be improved upon. As with many practices in the world of alternative medicine, my client intake form is several pages long and takes roughly 15 minutes to fill out …

Top 20 Articles of 2024

It took some finagling on the back end of my website, but by the end of January 2024, I had a way to roughly track post views again, two ways to be exact. So we’ll take a look at two different perspectives of how many people visited my site for …

2024 Fair Season Ends With a Bang! Merry Christmas!

We just wrapped up our final major craft fair of the 2024 Fall and Christmas craft fair season! We were at Rustic Reel’s Reel Christmas Market which ran for two days on Saturday and Sunday, and being as it was fully outdoors under tents for both days, we dressed for …

Craft Fair Feedback and the Benefits of Wild Herbs

Well, Pondo and Rosa, our two tiny mascots this season, were seen in two different locations at our craft fair booths this weekend. We are having some very good conversations with people, and the occasional amazing plug for the locally-foraged teas that we sell. A lady came by who had …

2025: Where We Will Be This Summer Around the Central Okanagan

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When Table Space Runs Out, Go Up! Upscaling the Craft Fair Table. . .

It was bound to happen eventually. It wasn’t a matter of if, but when we would eventually run out of display space on the typical 6ft x 30″ table that we set up on for various fairs and shows. The usual display fit 8 teas nicely, but adding a 9th, …