Her Cultivation Diary-Chapter 1830 - 1664: Yun Yun’s House’s Worm Castings (Part 2)
A low-temperature dryer, used to dry vermicompost, otherwise it’s too heavy when wet and difficult to store.
Also, a packaging machine—it’s just a simple plastic bag with a drawstring seal. If you’re not familiar with it, the string can easily be pulled crooked.
The biggest costs in the whole entrepreneurship process are, first, buying earthworms, and second, buying food for the worms—
Fruit peels, vegetable scraps, sawdust, cow, sheep, and rabbit manure, these are hard to collect in this village, so he has no choice but to spend money and go to the city to buy them from people. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
But looking at these materials, you know they’re really not expensive.
The expense lies in buying a tricycle for convenient transport.
Adding up all these miscellaneous expenses, saying it costs nothing is unrealistic; it really costs quite a bit.
Now it’s almost time to sell, and the pressure suddenly emerges again.
Although he listens to his wife, he doesn’t really understand the market for vermicompost and can’t figure out what price to sell it for so that people will buy it.
The couple mulled it over again and again, but couldn’t find a good reference, as everything is sold differently online.
This makes them more anxious and even less confident.
Yun Duo looked at her at this moment:
"Sis, is the pressure really that big?"
Yunyun gave her a light slap:
"What are you talking about? Your brother-in-law can’t just work hard for nothing for months."
"Besides, if we didn’t prep for vermicompost, just growing vegetables on those two acres could bring in quite a bit, right? Look at Teacher Qi’s grandfather, the old man has just two or three tenths of an acre, and he sells bok choy and lettuce once a month. 6 yuan per jin!"
Does bok choy and lettuce need management?
Just loosen the soil and scatter the seeds.
If you want them to grow neatly, just plant the seeds neatly when you have time, and check for insects, moths, and butterflies. It seems much simpler to make money this way than what they’re doing.
If they lose money now, it’s not just the labor costs lost, but also several months of missed opportunities to make a fortune!
For a small family business, how can they not feel heartache?
Yun Duo started to laugh:
"Well, you can’t say that, with profit comes risk. Some vegetables, if they stay on the plant a day longer, they become old."
"If no one buys the bok choy this week, people start being picky the next week. Even though this business took a few months, once it’s all sold, you can at least have four or five sales periods a year. Isn’t that good?"
In the village, some people originally planted okra, hearing that many young people like to eat it.
But the okra on the plant becomes old if it isn’t picked daily, and not every day does someone come to buy okra.
Later, people gave up. After harvesting a crop and using it in their own homes, no one planted it again.
Yunyun sighed:
"See, it all circles back to the starting point, doesn’t it? I’m just worried about not selling it all at once."
Vermicompost has a large output; if it’s not sold all at once, it piles up, and then more will need to be stored next time. They’ll still have to clear a room to store this... which is a hassle too.
But, Yun Duo is not experienced in selling vermicompost either.
She searched online now and couldn’t help but frown deeply:
"Why are the prices so varied?"
Exactly.
Yunyun pointed to the shop in front:
"Look at this, you can buy twenty to thirty jin for just 30 yuan. But this one costs four to five yuan per jin."
"Now, I don’t know how to price it, and without an approximate sales volume, it’s hard to negotiate prices with couriers."
"Moreover, others have organized large-scale vermicompost production, yielding five or six tons per acre, or even more."
"Expert Yan and the others came to guide us, saying this shed isn’t high enough, and the ventilation isn’t sufficient. We lack machinery, and manual precision hasn’t met standards yet. If we truly want to do it well, all the necessary preparations must be in place."
Additionally, the bamboo-built greenhouses aren’t wind-resistant.
Recently, the weather’s been fine, but in the summer, if there’s a thunderstorm or strong wind, it could easily blow away.
That also requires further investment.
In all this, Yun Duo is simply reluctant to do farm work, not that she doesn’t care about her own husband—
If money is made, at least more equipment can be bought!
The two sisters are strangers to this business; Expert Yan and the others can find people in this line of work, but it’s unreasonable to ask them to introduce their clients too!
Yunyun’s biggest worry—
"I’m mainly afraid that your brother-in-law won’t recover his investment and lose his motivation."
Whether farming or anything else, motivation is the most crucial. Once hope is lost, work becomes perfunctory, and things will only get worse from there.
Yun Duo thought for a while and then laughed, "Why don’t we just go directly and ask the boss?"
