Cuppa tea Dicky?

I think my WordPress headline analyser tool is going to have an apoplexy with that title. Too short, not enough familiar words, not enough complex words. Basically, not enough words. And the sentiment? I will give an update once I have done my spellcheck (which I forgot to do last week, hope it wasn’t too painful reading….)

Today’s blog is about moving forward. Not in any real great philosophical life epiphany sense. More practical – how to move forward with the DBP product range.

I am going to work out how to add a product page to my blog, which will feature the ingredients of each batch. The reason is simple really. I made the labels too small, and my handwriting looks like a zombie apocalypse footprint.

It gives a great opportunity to also add some recipes. For example, what all you can do with pesto (other than heaping spoonful’s of the stuff onto whatever crackers you can find in the “end of the month” cupboard.

Anyway, back to my product range:

1. Japanese Mustard Pesto. Out of stock for the moment, but I am toying with the idea to make JMP infused pasta. Simply boil it up (home-made pasta cooks in 2 minutes), toss in some cocktail tomatoes, maybe some salami, and voila!
2. Dried Basil. Preservative free, no harmful pesticides (unless you are a fly, and you do not like apple cider vinegar). I feel a recipe coming up involving pasta & cream.
3. Dried marjoram. Same principle. Will follow into production in 2 weeks’ time.
4. Chamomile tea. I just need to check exactly how much to add to each cup, in the dried format. Once I have done that, it will go into retail.
5. Natural pesticide for your home. Marigold (aka Stinkaster) makes pretty flowers and keeps the bugs off your produce.
6. Dried mint. Coming soon. Would be used for mint tea (ate too much? Try some DBP mint tea before retiring).
7. Fennel seeds. For use in baking – I think I will do tomorrow’s “road-trip-back-to-the-city-sandwiches” on a fennel infused sourdough bread.

My supply source.

It is a bit of a mix between free range (mint), and carefully tended greenhouse. But its all good. All natural, no harmful pesticides nor artificial fertilizers. Only good old fashioned cow dung here.

My retail outlet.

Well, at this stage it is a small little farm stall just outside Windhoek. In my typical goal orientated style, where I perhaps pay less attention to such minor details as distribution channels, I have not actually gotten to formalising this though. I will venture the name once have convinced them to stock more of my product. And once I have convinced them to administer my waste reduction return your glass container for a discount on your next DBP purchase. Work in progress.

For now, its back to the day job while I bed down this alternative living off the land self-sustaining lifestyle.

PS – yes, headline analyzer gave me a score of 28 out of 100.