Zen and the Art of Tractor Maintenance: Produce Boxing

I got tired of having produce in plastic trays and boxes that looked like crap. I think it was cutting into my sales at the farmers market and i have been looking at ways to improve our branding. I really needed a way to set my produce apart from the other venders. I got a banner from vistaprint.com which helped but I still wanted to spiff up my farm stand. So this week I spent a day in the shop building some boxes. They are cheap pine and only cost me about ten bucks each to build. I am really happy with the way they turned out. My CNC router can crank them out really fast, the 3d ones take about an hour the text only ones take about 10 min. I used a half inch 90 degree v bit for the text and a corbox for the chalk board border. I love the chalkboard paint in the foux raised panel, better place for pricing than taping on paper signs that always seem to blow away.