[TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing

[Peter Hirst]

Good idea, Mike, I love lamb,  but my vegetarian daughter, who is also my 
striker/apprentice, would quit on me or worse.  Thanks for your thoughts on 
breaking even, however.  One can only hope . . .

pgh




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:31 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Demonstration and Pricing


>
>> I was pleasantly surprised yesterday by an invitation to demonstrate
>> at the spring festival on a sheep farm near here....This is a
>> one-day event at a small sheep farm...non-profit owner.
>> ...
>> ...any guidance on how to determine what one should resonably ask?
>
> I'd ask for half a lamb, butchered and wrapped, to be delivered the
> next time they slaughter.  If you sell enough to cover your
> our-of-pocket expenses --- coal and petrol -- you're ahead and you
> have a friendly barter relation with a source of lamb and/or mutton as
> well.
>
> I regret that out sheep-farming neighbor moved away.  For some years
> there we got a freezer-ready lamb a year as rent for pasturage on a
> few acres of otherwise unused field and he maintained the fences into
> the bargain.
>
>
> - Mike
>
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