Farm To Porch
Hello to you all.
What to do with all those pumpkins Xavier grew this past summer?
That is a question I asked Xavier. His answer was "Sell them around the neighborhood."
Today, he executed this plan, though I wished he had executed it yesterday when the temperature was in the mid 70's and not in the low 30's.
Upon coming home from school, Xavier wanted to load up his wagon (given to him for Christmas five years ago) and go door to door.
We decided to wait an hour to give people time to get home. Also, Xavier needed to do his homework first.
After I popped out to grab the mail, I returned to the house to discover Xavier had already loaded his wagon with the one pumpkin he could easily carry.
He practiced his spelling words, then we loaded up the wagon with three more, which was not easy; the wagon is not a big as I remember.
Xavier had a strategy. He had two houses with kids he wanted to visit. The first was around the corner. He sold two, charging $5 for the big 27 pound pumpkin and $1.25 for the small three pounder.
Next, Xavier headed across the street to the house with an elaborate Halloween themed front lawn. The lady living there bought the wagon's two remaining 35 plus pounders for $5 each.
It was back home to reload the wagon. The next two stops met with "I don't do Halloween," and "I don't have any money." So, no sales there.
The next house bought the 17 pounder, and the next house bought the 43 pounder.
Xavier then wanted to sell to a family we met at the neighborhood park because they had three kids, so we started the five block trek to that family. On the way, Xavier targeted houses decorated for Halloween.
One household did not buy any because they had just as Xavier rang the doorbell come in from harvesting their own pumpkin patch. (It's expected to get to 24° tonight, so lots of gardeners were harvesting crops today)
The house across the street said they planned on visiting a pumpkin patch this weekend.
We finally reached the "house with the yellow sign" as Xavier explained his targeted family's location.
The family remembered Xavier from the park several weeks back. They needed another pumpkin. They had carved two last week and both deflated and got mushy. Xavier sold the last pumpkin in his wagon, a 37 pounder.
We walked home in a heavy drizzle, Xavier pulling his empty wagon. All in all, he made $31.25 in under an hour. He paid his Sherpa (aka Dad) one dollar for hauling the loaded wagon for him.