A lunchtime chat full of ideas...

www.twistedorigination.co.uk

Its been a pretty full on week of varied activities and meeting really lovely people who are keen to help us in our quest to set up our retail business. We have now secured a superb printing company, Twisted Origination who can meet all our printing needs, from produce labels, to marketing, merchandise and business paperwork and business cards.  They fit perfectly with our ethos, local, green, friendly and equally supportive of other local businesses as we are.  A real pleasure to work with already. That has kept us very busy finalising the artwork for our first printing order.
Alongside this the arrival of sunshine, brief though it has been has brought about a splurge of garden tasks that will wait not a minute more.  Spraying the fruit trees with a watered down mix of linseed oil to prevent the fluff spores and keep leaf curl away as well as giving them the most healthy glow ever, we have been using it for 3 years now and it truly does take care of your fruit trees and the fruit, and its chemical free. Sowing yet more rounds of seeds to keep the supply of salad for the kitchen, and getting the summer veg planted out now the threat of frost seems to have finally abated.
Of course in the kitchen we have been experimenting with pâté flavours and rye crispbreads, following our purchase of rye flour during our windmill tour of the weekend.  So given the supply of tasty trinkets it was time to invite mum over as she holds responsibility for initiating my love of both gardening and cooking, she does indeed deserve to benefit from the spoils.  Well mum never travels light and today she arrived bearing our repaired honey spinner, thanks Pops, and a full mobile garden centre of plants.
Well all of this was shaping up nicely for a lazy sunshine lunch in the garden and the chatter turned to the business and plans for the layout of the shop in which we would now also like to include a seasonal section in the deli for in season foods, but also in the home/garden-ware section for in season plants.  For some years mum has had a small scale market garden hobby going on at her place in Essex and is now fully on board with the idea of being our main supplier for plants to feature alongside our planned home grown herbs and veggies.
This new lifestyle is fitting us really well and business meetings are great fun with good company and so far very successful outcomes...roll on tomorrows target...to decide on the home for our business banking.!