Do you know where you were a decade ago this month? I do. I was at a local Saturday morning market with 50 bags of peanut brittle to sell. It was a sell out! This was not the first time I had peddled products. As a child of about 8 years old, I sold catalpa worms to fishermen. I picked blueberries by the millions to sell and helped my husband split and stack firewood to sell. But on this first market, I was hooked on the dream of entrepreneurship.
Today, we still sell approximately 50 bags of brittle per month. But what has become our niche is cheese wafers and shortbread cookies. We sell an average of 1600 boxes of cheese wafers per month making this one product over fifty percent of our business. We recently hit 500 online orders thanks to you, our followers. We still enjoy going to a few shows a year. The shows give us a chance to be with “our people”. It is the best part of the job! You encourage me! God continues to show us His carriers of Jesus are a mighty multitude among us.
20 Percent of businesses fail in the first year. 50 percent fail in the first five years. Our business survival credit goes to God’s favor, slow growth, and failures. The failures paved the way to our version of success. Even though this business was started ten years ago in 2014, our exponential grow did not occur until 2020 with the coming of covid. I began full time with the business that year and David joined me in 2021. We continue to grow and enjoy this adventure step by step one failure at a time. God continues to shower His blessings on us. Thank you for following the journey!
