Olde Time Fair – Sudbury, MA
Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
Boy do we love Sudbury, Massachusetts. We’ve been doing the Colonial Faire at the Wayside Inn for a few years now and have built up a pretty good following. The town of Sudbury is having their 375 celebration and one of the events is this Olde Time Fair which was held on August 23rd. Apparently someone from the town knew our of kettle corn from the Wayside Inn event and asked us to be here. We jumped all over the chance. We’ve got a bunch of people who are loyal followers of our product from the other Sudbury events, and they didn’t disappoint.
The location was sort of in a weird spot – it was centered around the small town common, which is at the crossroads of two busy streets. It was a pain in the butt to get our trailer in it’s final spot. Tons of people were there for the day to see the pony rides and other critters. We sold 8 oils worth of kettle corn – the same amount we did last week at the Framingham Farmers Market (which is just down the street). These types of events where you have people who have already tried your product tend to do really well. Typically we don’t sell many large bags if nobody knows who you are, but the regulars were really gobbling everything up.
We’re really getting torqued up for the Sudbury Field Day event on September 6th. There’s gonna be concerts and fireworks that day, all 10 hours of it. We’re going to be exhausted and hopefully this will be our record day of the season. We learned that the Colonial Faire will have extra people this year because of the 375 celebration, so it should be close between the two events.
