Red Ants Pants Festival

Last weekend we were invited to sell salads at the Red Ants Pants Festival.  Laurie's friend Sarah founded the Red Ants Pants company in 2006 to provide work wear for women.  And this was to be the first annual festival.  So we graciously accepted.


The day we prepped for the fest was exciting.  We were also picking for markets.  We ended up picking around 200 heads of lettuce.  It was an amazing harvest.  Everything looked beautiful.  We packed up heads for market and began to chop up the heads to make salads with.  We also started to gather everything else we needed.  Friday night we drove out to the festival grounds to get our area set up.  It went rather quick and we ended the night with a dip in the hot springs.


Saturday morning we were up early to finish salad prep.  Chopping onions and peppers and mixing up the dressings.  A little rushed we made it out the door and to the fest on time.  We put the finishing touches on our stand and were open for business.  And business was ready for salads.

Although the day started slow we blasted through much of our supplies by mid afternoon.  Laurie had to rush back home to grab more lettuce and mix up some more dressing.  While she was gone we had to hold down the fort.  Quite literally.  The wind picked up and was whipping around the festival.  Some people almost lost their tents.  It was so windy we had to stop selling salads or the lettuce would blow away.

Aside from the small storm the rest of the weekend was beautiful.  We had a great day on Saturday and Sunday we had sold out by 4 o'clock.  It was a spectacular success and we hope that Crazy View will attend the 2nd annual fest next year.