VALUE ADDED: The micro farm and small scale farming community – from blueberry u-picks to lavender farms, are integrating farm art as a value-added product. Some are selling farm images or farm logos on t-shirts, caps and totes. Others are actually turning walls of their farm markets or barns into mini rural art galleries with quality wall hangings for sale. You can join in if you own a camera.
Rural and nature scenes as art are often highly desirable products, so don’t take your veggie gardens, fields and blossoming fruit trees for granted. If you have good high resolution photos of your micro farming scenes, services such as Personal Canvas Art, one of our affiliates, that can turn your photography into quality canvas “oil paintings” to hang on the walls of your farm store or farmers’ market to beautify it, along with a price tag for customers who may want to order a copy. You mark up the price beyond your cost to earn a profit and don’t order a duplicate until you have payment from a customer. You can also offer farm art on your website.
Be sure to put a dated copyright notice on each piece of art sold. Cafepress.com is another popular service for uploading your images to turn them into posters, t-shirts and other products. You can even sell those products directly via your own Cafepress store online, and they handle the financial transactions. – www.MicroEcoFarming.com