Farm and Soap Updates — small business

Ok, what's up with egg prices these days? As you may have heard, a highly contagious strain of bird flu has been wreaking havoc on many of the countries large commercial eggs farms, causing egg prices to rise and supply to be unreliable. Here's a great Avian Influenza fact sheet from the Cornell University college of Veterinary Medicine. Will Fat Chance Farm egg prices be going up? Currently I have no plans to raise prices. While demand for our eggs has certainly increased, my costs have thus far remained stable, so I have no need to increase prices for that reason....

I started experimenting with deodorant recipes almost ten years ago. While I've adjusted the ingredients over the years, mainly to help it tolerate the hotter summer temperatures it may encounter when being shipped outside of Vermont, the shape has remained the same. As you might have guessed, Farmer Pits is indeed poured into cupcake trays. The advantages to this are cost (even in bulk, deodorant tubes are expensive!) and minimal waste (just a paper wrapper to throw out, not a big chunk of plastic).  Now the disadvantages. One is purely aesthetics, when I sell my products in person at a...

The orders are really rolling in now for the holidays and I just wanted to thank all our customers, new and old, for supporting a small business! I also thought I'd give you a little insight into how we do shipping and manage soap pre-orders, so if that interests you, read on. For starters, when I say small business, I mean it. I currently have no employees, so marketing, shipping, manufacturing and admin is all one person (aside from the occasional family member drafted in to manage the accounting!) I do hope to grow beyond that some day but that is...