Description:
Pick some vegetables from your garden and sell them or sell the product you made from the vegetables, p.e. soup, potato salad, carrot cake.
Intention
Students get to budget and fund their own school products in a regenerative style. Understanding the cost, revenue, gains and circular economy.
Survey the garden
Students walk through the garden and list what is ready to harvest and in what quantity. Introduce the idea of supply and resource management.
Decide what to sell
Based on what is available, students choose which raw vegetables and which simple value added products (for example, herb mix, pickles, tea blend) they will offer.
Calculate basic costs
Students list and estimate all costs connected to their products, such as seeds, jars, labels, bags and any extra ingredients. Connect this to cost of production.
Form working teams
Divide the class into teams such as harvesting, production, packaging and sales or marketing. Explain that this is division of labor.
Research prices
Students check prices for similar products in a local shop, market or online. This is their basic market research and helps them understand demand and typical prices.
Set the selling prices
Using their cost estimates and competitor prices, students choose prices that cover costs and leave some profit. Discuss why their prices might be higher or lower than in a store.
Create simple marketing
The marketing team prepares easy flyers, signs or short messages that highlight why the products are local, fresh and support the school, and how this can increase deman
Set up the market stand
On market day, students arrange a clean, attractive stand with clear product names and price tags so that customers can easily see what is being sold.
Handle money and record sales
A sales team welcomes customers, takes payments and gives change. A treasurer records each sale in a simple table with product, quantity, price and total revenue.
Observe supply and demand
During the market, students notice which items sell quickly and which do not. They can try small price changes, for example reducing the price of items that are not selling.
Count total revenue
After the market, the treasurer and class count all the money taken in and record this as total revenue
Calculate profit
Students subtract the total production costs from total revenue to find the gross profit, using the formula: Total Revenue minus Total Production Costs equals Gross Profit.
Decide what to do with the profit
As a class, students decide how to use the profit, for example reinvesting in seeds and tools, saving for a future project or using a small part for a group treat, showing how profit can fuel future growth.
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