Flourish Farms Farmstand Ideas & Plan - Flourish Farms Mastering your Homestead

Have any of you ever thought about building a farmstand to share your produce, eggs, bakes goods, and lots more with your local community? Lyndsey and I have been seeing a lot of farmstand ideas and have come up with a plan for Flourish Farms to start its own farmstand starting Spring of 2025. Farmstands can be simple in structure with just a few items, or they can be intricate and complex with power, water, and temperature control. They can be as simple, or elegant as the owner wants, and Lyndsey and I’s main goal is to serve our local community with fresh produce, eggs, and bakes goods out of our farmstand.

Plan

Now that the construction on our greenhouse is complete, the plan is to start construction on the farmstand. The weather looks great to allow a quick build, our farmstand is going to be quite simple as well which will aid in the process. We acquired some antique steel sheets that will look great on our farmstand. We plan to make it small enough that we can move it around easily if we need too. I have had a knack for constructing things out of pallets, they are usually cheap and easy to build with. Lyndsey bakes a lot of sour dough bread and other goods that we will sell out of the farmstand along with our garden produce, fresh eggs, salsa, and vanilla extract. If anyone has any other ideas, please reach out to us and let us know what you would like to see in the farmstand! Farmstand social media pages have inspired us to pursue this journey I have attached some links to our favorites at the end of the blog.

Execution

Our main goal for this farmstand is to serve our local community with whole foods and treats that the entire family can enjoy. If this is something you are interested in, please reach out to us for information on how we learned about it. We are still learning ourselves, and group learning is the best! Once the farmstand is built we plan to have it at our property just outside of town and make it a self-serve style kind of farmstand. People can take what they want and leave money in a box or Venmo us. We will bake multiple times a week for the farmstand and try to always have new and improved items available. Also, a farmstand is a great way to have some extra supplemental income. The input cost is fairly low, but the time is the most expensive part! Lyndsey and I dedicate a lot of time to our garden, animals, and preserving/cooking. We have learned to love the work that goes into making our homestead a homestand. Our family bonds in nature, and our son Wells has grown up getting dirty, caring for animals, and learning how to be self-sufficient. I will try and update this blog with posts as our farmstand starts being constructed, as always stay tuned for more updates and opportunities to grow with us!!