Start of the 2012 season! Earth Day Festival
Monday, April 30th, 2012Off we go – the start of the 2012 season! The big news is I bought a house in the Buzzards Bay area, right next to Cape Cod. (I like the fact that I have a BUZZARD in the name!) The appeal is I’m 1,000 feet from the ocean and a mile long beach. Since I don’t have kids and all the baggage, I wanted to move to where I would like to live, and not have my job dictate where I end up. I’m still in Massachusetts, but I’m going to start looking for new popping locations, closer to my home turf. I feel pretty confident that I can find some spots to make kettle corn on the Cape, the place is a mad house during the summer. I’ll be posting updates on how my search goes for all you people who are here to learn about the kettle corn business. I’ll also be pursing kettle corn much more harder this year since my other forms of income have started to dry up.
I’m still within striking distance to Framingham, so I’ll be popping there over the summer. The first event of the season was at the Framingham common – the Earth Day festival on April 28, 2012. We were invited back from last year and this years event was nuts. The weather was perfect for April and customers were ready to go when we first fired up the kettle. We got hammered with customers the entire 4 hours we were there. This crowd was even more “earthy-crunchy” than a typical craft fair. The whole point of the festival was to celebrate being green, recycling and basically being a modern hippie. They even gave us crap about selling the kettle corn in a plastic bag.
Since I’ll be establishing new stomping grounds, I needed to find someone who was closer to my new location who could do this on a full time basis. My buddy Dan Bridges fit the bill perfectly. He’s a real hot shot sales type of guy who used to be the #1 guy at Sears when he sold refrigerators. I’ve known him for a very long time. He helped me with my indie movie that I shot that I create about 10 years ago. He seemed kind of skeptical when I said kettle corn was like selling drugs. People go mental over the stuff, it’s become known as “kettle crack”. After getting hammered for 4 intense hours, he’s now a believer. Our long range plans are to find a central popping location and push it further than just the tent. Let’s see how that goes.
