Checking In!

Hello dear Friends!

Here we are in a winter cold snap, and I’m contemplating how I want to manage my 2025 season. My wonderful husband has built me the bulk of my raised garden beds, and I’ll have 21 to plant for the 2025 growing season. So, gardening is on the forefront of my mind.

When I started Red Gate Farm in the summer of 2014, my mom and I focused primarily on gardening with only a few baked goods from time to time. As you may know, during Covid my baking business boomed, and I shifted gears to a focus primarily on baking.

I have been so grateful to all of the customers who have supported my business no matter what I was selling, and I don’t want to let anyone down.

A few things I’m thinking about:
– I would like to close my Facebook account and have people start checking here for what’s coming, when I’ll open, what I’ll sell, etc. I am going to start posting links to these posts on Facebook for the foreseeable future, and will let you know when I’m shutting it down.
– As you may or may not know, I have a job now and summer is the busy time. My husband works very hard all week and his only down time is on weekends. I’m trying to find a balance between staying open for my customers and finding time to spend for myself or with my husband. I don’t know what that looks like yet, but I am contemplating opening a couple of weekdays and being closed on weekends. At this point it’s just in the idea phase, and if you want to comment and give me feedback that would be appreciated
– Another idea is opening one or two days during the week and every other Saturday. That could be challenging for customers to track though, so it’s just another idea at this point.
– I want the garden to be my main focus this year and baking only being a small part of what I’m doing. This may mean only baking the big sellers (brownies, cinnamon rolls and 1 flavor of cake) but in larger quantities.

These are just things that I’m mulling as I try to figure out the best way for me, my family and my customers to move forward. Thanks for listening, I will keep writing and posting a link until everyone gets used to checking here instead of Facebook.

Be well, stay safe and Happy 2025!! All my best, Andria