Super Orchard

Chapter 286 Open or not

Since this period of time, the sharp drop in the price of strawberries in the market has had no effect on the strawberries grown in Jinquan Orchard, and it is still overcrowded every day.

Most of the people who are willing to come here to pick 150 yuan a catty of strawberries don’t care much about the price, only the quality of the strawberries.

Feng Yuanchao, who comes to the orchard every winter, also comes here again after New Year's Day. As usual, he directly rents two rooms and will live there until the beginning of spring next year.

Feng Yuanchao likes to eat fruits and vegetables. He picks strawberries more or less every day. Apart from eating them himself, he also sends some to his old comrades in other places.

In addition to these super fruits and super vegetables, what Feng Yuanchao values ​​most is the particularly pleasant environment in the Golden Spring Orchard and the comfortable temperature. Staying here, Feng Yuanchao has never had the old problem of leg pain again.

Every morning, Feng Yuanchao gets up early like an ordinary old man and goes to the orchard to exercise. He often meets Shen Yangguang who comes for a morning jog in the orchard.

On this day, Feng Yuanchao was jogging with Shen Yangguang. Clouds of white mist spewed out from the mouths of the two, blending with the surrounding morning mist, like a fairyland on earth.

After jogging, the two began to walk back, chatting while walking.

"Xiao Shen, I see that your orchard is getting more and more powerful, your reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and the fruit shops you have opened in various places are also very famous."

"Where is it, I will be proud if Mr. Feng continues to boast."

"When I came here a few days ago, I saw a large orchard on the east side of the village. Where is it?"

"That is also the industry of our Golden Spring Orchard, which mainly grows some relatively cold-resistant fruits."

Although Feng Yuanchao didn't know too much about the fruit industry, he also knew that fruits were seasonal products, so he nodded and said, "I saw peach and pear trees planted by the side of the road, and I know the rest. Both kinds of fruits ripen in autumn, other fruits in your greenhouse ripen in summer, and now there are Bufona and strawberries that ripen in winter, which is very good, and the fruits of various seasons match each other."

After a pause, Feng Yuanchao continued: "In this case, why do you only carry out sightseeing picking in the winter months every year, why don't you carry out sightseeing picking all year round? It stands to reason that the profit of sightseeing picking is greater than transporting it to the fruit shop by yourself Profit from sales?"

Shen Yangguang nodded and said yes, and the fact is exactly the same. Although the price of the super fruit sold by Jinquan fruit shop is similar to that of the fruit directly sold to customers by sightseeing, the cost of transporting it to fruit shops in various places is much higher. In addition, there are labor costs, storefront costs, etc. Taken together, they are definitely not as profitable as sightseeing and picking.

Feng Yuanchao said this out of kindness and curiosity, but he knew far less about Jinquan Orchard than Shen Yangguang, so he didn't know the actual situation of Jinquan.

Shen Yangguang smiled and said: "Mr. Feng doesn't know something. The strawberries in our Jinquan Orchard are not bad, basically just enough to meet the needs of picking, but the output of other fruits is much more. If you only rely on sightseeing to pick them, it is difficult to sell them all." .”

"At the same time, most of the other fruits ripen in summer. Of course, there are several kinds of fruits that ripen in spring and autumn. However, in these seasons, the climate here in Northeast China is not bad, and we cannot show the temperature advantage of our orchards. Especially It’s summer, and the weather is already unbearably hot, who would go to the greenhouse to pick fruit?”

Feng Yuanchao also laughed, and said: "It seems that this is indeed the case, but the fruit trees on the east side of the village are almost ripe in autumn, right? And there is no greenhouse to cover them, so autumn is a good time to pick them."

Regarding the matter of starting the picking business in the eastern orchard, Shen Yangguang had considered it a long time ago, but he was ultimately rejected.

Although this can increase the profit margin, considering the actual situation, even if the Jinquan Orchard is famous enough, the fruits picked by the tourists who come to the [-]-acre orchard can only account for a very small part. It has no effect on the whole.

However, if the sightseeing and picking business is carried out, the management of the entire orchard will become complicated, and special personnel must be arranged for reception, and a series of supporting service facilities such as parking for meals must be considered.

Parking alone is very inconvenient. At present, the large parking lot of Jinquan Orchard is at the entrance of the western orchard, which is more than two kilometers away from the eastern orchard. Who would park here and walk all the way there, back and forth That's five miles to go!
Unless a large parking lot is also built in the eastern orchard, but it is next to the country road, and the roadside is obviously not suitable for parking. Only by bulldozing a part of the orchard can there be enough open space, but in this way, the loss caused by the reduction of fruit trees will be huge. There will be a lot, and the money earned from sightseeing and picking may not be enough to make up for the loss, let alone the trouble.

In addition, the orchards in the east are basically the same as other orchards except for the quality of the fruits. Unlike the orchards in the west, there are high-tech greenhouses, which make it as warm as spring in the cold winter, and there are native chickens, hares and vegetables raised by ourselves. And other related supporting facilities, the competitiveness of orchards in the east is obviously not too strong.

It would be ridiculous if sightseeing and picking were carried out there, and after a long time-consuming and laborious work, there were very few tourists who came to pick them. The idea was quickly dismissed.

After briefly explaining some of these problems, Feng Yuanchao quickly understood, and laughed at himself: "Sigh, when you are old, you really don't think about things as comprehensively as when you are young."

"Old Feng, you are in the right age, and didn't you say that you have a specialization in art? I must know nothing about what you are good at, and you may not know much about what I am good at, hahaha!"

Feng Yuanchao couldn't help sighing after hearing this: "Yes, a person's life is only a short hundred years, and only a few decades can be grasped by himself. In these short decades, it is enough to be able to do a certain thing well. If you want to know a little bit about everything, you will end up knowing nothing at all.”

"Haha, Mr. Feng is Mr. Feng, and his words are so philosophical that I suddenly feel enlightened."

"You kid likes to flatter. If you are in the team, I will definitely let you rush to the front line. Let you eat a gun and go home to raise it. Stop making noise in front of me."

"It's not in the team now."

"Now? Now I really like to hear it, hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)