What would you like to see?

As a "wanna-be-homesteader"....kits, small scale supplies, wanna blow money dabbling...such as soap making, wine making, cheese making kits for beginners along with supplies for the real homesteaders. Classes with supplies would be great! If you teach them, they become customers!

I just wanted to add, If I could buy cheese with the option to then learn how to make my own, I would become three customers in one (product purchase, class purchase, and supply purchase).

What about doing how to classes and sell kits for them to take home to start doing what was learned on their own?

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I'm so done here.

What is the
population? Are you on a major road?

I would like to see bulk items. Pasture seed in bins to buy by the pound. Some animal feed. Good selection of hardware. Small section of hand tools, especially those hard to find ones. I would expect to see a selection of seasonal garden seed.

A good feel like good old fashion wood plank floors. A coffee pot with donuts and a couple tables with chairs. A policed community bulletin board. Take old stuff down. You could sell add space on it to for the locals. Make it a gathering place. The gathering place where I live is a senior lunch program. Other than that it is 15 miles to anything for me. Anything serious like a pound of nails or a piece of pvc pipe is 50 miles round trip.

What do the people where you want to put in this store do. Cater to them.

How big a place you put in will determine some of what you can offer.

Anything that elicits good memories like coffee perking or muffins cooking will be a plus. Warm in the winter, cooler in the summer. What do you think will be the main age of folks coming to shop?

What you do food wise is all dependent on your state and local laws. Make sure you know and are in compliance from the get go. Good insurance and attention to any potential insurance liabilities.

an old man that had a hardware store here,had a formula......if two or three people asked for something,,he would get one in,,,,if he sold it he would get two,,if they sold he would order a bunch....