Big Farm Store Blog

I get so tired of going into the local pet stores or even crusing online an seeing these dinky or even large ornimental items used to decorate up fish tanks, or other enclosures that cost an arm an leg!
How many times have you gone into the petstore seen a peice that looked awsome bu the price tag on it made it hidious?
Well this is going to be one of several videos that I am going to be doing showing you cheap, cost effective ways to make even the simplest enclosure look like you have a peice of nature right in your own home!

I would like to give Special thanks to Joanne Crumbly, a good friend of mine who serves in the Armed forces for for sending me box full of goodies your about to see in this video.

Your Imagination is your limit when it comes to spicing up an enclosure. Not only can you make the enclosure look nice, but it can also help recycle an keep plastics out of our landfills!

Places you can look for plants to use in thise projects an save money are:

Dollar General
Family Dollar
(prety much any dollar store)
Wal Mart
K Mart
Wal Greens
CVS
Hobby Lobby
Thrift Store

Check out these palces to find bedding etc.
LOWES
Ace Hardware
Home Depot
Tractor Farm Supply
AnY Co-Op! or Garden Center!

The above are just a few places where you can find anything to use an save a cupple $!

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Barter with us using your old tools, tractors, plumbing and construction supplies, farm implements, fencing materials, usable nuts and bolts…. well you have the picture, things we can use around our farms. If we can’t use them maybe we can send it on to someone else that can???? We are always looking to trade nursery stock and seedlings for your surplus. Email us with your surplus materials. We may be able to make trades.

I once put an ad in the paper that said, “If it’s free it’s for me”. I had to stop the add because I collected so much stuff. Ads do work. The problem with this ad was it was not specific enough to target what I was looking for. Over time and years I then started to swap and barter the free stuff that I got for things I really wanted. I had hundreds of broken lawn mowers and hundreds of gallons of old unwanted paint. I had enough paint to dip a house if needed. Disposal now became an issue. Thus I came up with the idea of trading and barter.

Now I did not invent this wheel but I had enough of them that it appeared I might have. So barter has become a means of swapping and exchanging my surpluses for other people’s surpluses. Since I am in the nursery business I also have plants that are surplus. I may plant 1000 trees expecting to need 1000 and find that I have 500 more than what I need. So offering these trees on the web for barter has been an effective means to move dormant inventory. Besides this is a great way to meet new customers. When they have surpluses and I can move their dormant stock, we both win. Here is a sample ad that I ran on my web site seedlingsrus.com :

I once put an ad in the paper that said, “If it’s free it’s for me”. I had to stop the add because I collected so much stuff. Ads do work. The problem with this ad was it was not specific enough to target what I was looking for. Over time and years I then started to swap and barter the free stuff that I got for things I really wanted. I had hundreds of broken lawn mowers and hundreds of gallons of old unwanted paint. I had enough paint to dip a house if needed. Disposal now became an issue. Thus I came up with the idea of trading and barter.

Now I did not invent this wheel but I had enough of them that it appeared I might have. So barter has become a means of swapping and exchanging my surpluses for other people’s surpluses. Since I am in the nursery business I also have plants that are surplus. I may plant 1000 trees expecting to need 1000 and find that I have 500 more than what I need. So offering these trees on the web for barter has been an effective means to move dormant inventory. Besides this is a great way to meet new customers. When they have surpluses and I can move their dormant stock, we both win.

Yes, I think my 86 year old father is becoming a squirrel. He collects just about anything. He has trouble walking so I have him doing his favorite job, separating and sorting nuts ( yes…nuts) and bolts and stray hardware we find around the farm. I would mix up what he has already sorted but he checks for that. He remembers just about each and every unusual item we bring him. He also knows where we store these items so hence I’m asking you…. did you have a relative like this….did you end up with piles and coffee cans of nuts and bolts and misc hardware that had to be saved and now can be reused by another old timer? If so, please email me so that we can get together. I would like to have those cans and buckets of odd ball items to keep my father busy. I will give you some plants from my nursery if you would bring the things to us. We are near Doylestown. My father would love to chat with you as well. Thank You, A Chipmunk.

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Barter with us using your old tools, tractors, plumbing and construction supplies, farm implements, fencing materials, usable nuts and bolts…. well you have the picture, things we can use around our farms. If we can’t use them maybe we can send it on to someone else that can???? We are always looking to trade nursery stock and seedlings for your surplus. Email us with your surplus materials. We may be able to make trades.

I once put an ad in the paper that said, “If it’s free it’s for me”. I had to stop the add because I collected so much stuff. Ads do work. The problem with this ad was it was not specific enough to target what I was looking for. Over time and years I then started to swap and barter the free stuff that I got for things I really wanted. I had hundreds of broken lawn mowers and hundreds of gallons of old unwanted paint. I had enough paint to dip a house if needed. Disposal now became an issue. Thus I came up with the idea of trading and barter.

Now I did not invent this wheel but I had enough of them that it appeared I might have. So barter has become a means of swapping and exchanging my surpluses for other people’s surpluses. Since I am in the nursery business I also have plants that are surplus. I may plant 1000 trees expecting to need 1000 and find that I have 500 more than what I need. So offering these trees on the web for barter has been an effective means to move dormant inventory. Besides this is a great way to meet new customers. When they have surpluses and I can move their dormant stock, we both win. Here is a sample ad that I ran on my web site seedlingsrus.com :

I once put an ad in the paper that said, “If it’s free it’s for me”. I had to stop the add because I collected so much stuff. Ads do work. The problem with this ad was it was not specific enough to target what I was looking for. Over time and years I then started to swap and barter the free stuff that I got for things I really wanted. I had hundreds of broken lawn mowers and hundreds of gallons of old unwanted paint. I had enough paint to dip a house if needed. Disposal now became an issue. Thus I came up with the idea of trading and barter.

Now I did not invent this wheel but I had enough of them that it appeared I might have. So barter has become a means of swapping and exchanging my surpluses for other people’s surpluses. Since I am in the nursery business I also have plants that are surplus. I may plant 1000 trees expecting to need 1000 and find that I have 500 more than what I need. So offering these trees on the web for barter has been an effective means to move dormant inventory. Besides this is a great way to meet new customers. When they have surpluses and I can move their dormant stock, we both win.

Yes, I think my 86 year old father is becoming a squirrel. He collects just about anything. He has trouble walking so I have him doing his favorite job, separating and sorting nuts ( yes…nuts) and bolts and stray hardware we find around the farm. I would mix up what he has already sorted but he checks for that. He remembers just about each and every unusual item we bring him. He also knows where we store these items so hence I’m asking you…. did you have a relative like this….did you end up with piles and coffee cans of nuts and bolts and misc hardware that had to be saved and now can be reused by another old timer? If so, please email me so that we can get together. I would like to have those cans and buckets of odd ball items to keep my father busy. I will give you some plants from my nursery if you would bring the things to us. We are near Doylestown. My father would love to chat with you as well. Thank You, A Chipmunk.

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