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echo: home-n-grdn
to: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES
from: SANDRA PEAKE
date: 1998-02-27 14:48:00
subject: A good idea ...

CG>If you can rig up some kind of chute from the drums, you toss
CG>the manure & grass-clippings into the drums, and let people bag
CG>their own out of the bottom?
  Hope they bring their own gas masks, too, Chris. :-) A rural friend of
  mine had a much simpler system. Her kids would bag old rotted manure
  up in black plastic trash bags, put 3 or 4 at a time at the end of
  their driveway, along with a sign that read -Manure, $1.00 per bag.
  They often sold out in 3 weeks in early spring, and had to stockpile
  the really fresh stuff to let it cook. This was in the heart of
  farming country, past huge piles of steaming manure. But city people
  prefer it already bagged; so they just stop, throw a couple bags in
  the trunk, and drop the coins in a can fastened to the mailbox. No
  time atall, atall, something busy people appreciate. 
CG>At a pinch, advertising in a local paper in the city closest to
CG>you might get you people who will include your farm as a stop on
CG>their Sunday drive.  "FREE!" usually gets attention. Of course,
CG>while they're there, they'll purchase two jars of your farm
CG>honey, a glass of lemonade, .....
   At a time of year when most think of manure, it's too cold for
   lemonade and farmers are too busy preparing the land to stop and yak.
   The bag 'em and leave 'em approach works very well here. :-)
                       ...Sandra...
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