I will accept berries in bulk. Business on buying and reselling forest gifts. Berries are a high quality product

Our company buys Forest mushrooms and wild berries from the population and wholesalers. Our acceptance points are located on the territory of Karelia, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Murmansk region, including on Kola Peninsula, Krasnoshchelye, in the Lovozersky district and directly in the vicinity of Lovozero, in the villages of Teriberka, Koyda, the village of Muezersky and many other settlements.

Also you can us sell berries cultural gardening. We only buy them from frozen form, fresh and dried do not accept.

Prices for taking berries

Depending on the crop prices when buying berries from the population may change. For example, the cost of lingonberries from year to year varies from about 70 to 100 rubles per kilogram, cloudberries - from 250 to 600, blueberries, cranberries - from 70 to 120.

Purchase of wild plants carried out at the same prices, in which area our collection point is located. Weighing is carried out on certified scales, which always show the exact weight.

Why is it profitable for you to cooperate with us

1. We offer best price for the day intake of mushrooms and berries.
2. We pay immediately after the delivery of products.
3. We pay in any way: in cash, on a bank card, by bank transfer.
4. If the berries are very good quality- payment is higher.
5. We accept any volume - from 1 kg.
6. When you hand over a batch of 100 kg or more, the price for each kilogram is higher.
7. We have more than 100 points buying wild plants, one of them is probably close to where you live.

I will sell fresh blueberries, cloudberries, lingonberries, blueberries, crowberries, cranberries and spring cranberries.

If you collect and sell cloudberries, blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries(new harvest and spring), viburnum, blueberry, crowberry, blackberry or princess - please contact us. We accept all kinds wild berries, the main thing is that they are fresh, ripe. It is possible with leaves and twigs.

Our sales market is constantly expanding, every year we sell more and more finished products, therefore, throughout the entire berry season, we reception of wild plants in unlimited quantities. There are thousands of assemblers who cooperate with our company.

Of course, it's up to you where sell berries - in the market, on the roadside or give it to us. We only offer the most favorable conditions: you save your time, get paid instantly and earn more than resellers can offer you.

Reception of strawberries, wild strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, mountain ash, sea buckthorn

IN last years, I don’t know, this is due to not very stable financial position some of our fellow citizens or with the profitability of such an occupation, the business of forest products has spread.

Thousands of buyers of berries and mushrooms register their “business” and travel around cities and towns, inviting people who want to earn some extra money during the holiday season to pick berries and mushrooms in the forest and rent them out for a certain fee, sometimes, by the way, quite decent.

The fact is that in Europe such products are wildly popular. Blueberries, cranberries and blackberries, blueberries are added to ice cream, expensive mousses, syrups, puddings and other equally tasty things are made. Mushrooms are pickled, canned or simply frozen, and then sold to restaurants and cafes, where visitors have to pay at least fifteen to twenty euros for one small portion of such a delicacy. This kind of frozen products is also popular among ordinary Europeans, who have the opportunity to purchase it frozen in super and hypermarkets.

The current situation is being actively used by agile purveyors, who earn decently on the desire of Europeans to taste the most useful gifts of our rich nature.

At first glance, such a business may seem rather risky, because the berry can simply go bad even before it arrives at its destination, especially in light of the “excellent” work of our customs. But this is only if you do not carefully think through all the stages of such work.

Today it is quite possible to rent refrigeration equipment, which will immediately decide main problem with the expiration date of berries and mushrooms and minimizes the risk of getting into a mess. The fact that the “frost” will be rented will significantly reduce the initial costs of doing business.

As a rule, flights to the Baltic countries and Europe with such goods are carried out once a week. During this time, the hired employees manage to travel around about a hundred villages, where procurement points have already been opened in advance, in which flattering products are being handed over briskly. Every evening, a car arrives at the “point”, which loads fresh products into the refrigeration equipment. There are villages where you can take up to a thousand tons of blueberries and hundreds of tons of chanterelles and porcini mushrooms a day. After all, neither old nor young in the village refuses to earn extra money.

After that, the goods are concentrated in the main warehouse, where they are waiting for their shipment abroad. Each flight brings the owner of such a business, depending on the volume of goods, from three to ten thousand euros. From this money you need to deduct funds for paying for the rent of equipment, warehouses, fare, wages employees and taxes, as a result, there is a good amount left. Often large buyers negotiate with local population to be able to open procurement points right at their home. The owner of the household is provided with scales, containers and other items necessary for work. For his work, such a villager receives a reward. It is worth noting that in summer period not only large procurers are engaged in such a business, but also smaller buyers. For example, there are people who negotiate with the local population, who donate flattering products not to procurement centers, but directly to a private person, moreover, a variety of marketing tricks are often used, for example, this same private trader himself takes the goods directly at home from the one who collected.

Such a business is beneficial to everyone, because a person who has worked in the forest for a day and is decently tired does not really want to carry the collected goods somewhere, it is much better if they bring the money directly to his house and pick up the mushrooms and berries themselves.

The so-called small "dealer" does not seek to get into the European market, he literally the next day goes to a large market in a large city center located nearby, and has a good "fat" on the previously purchased goods.

It is worth noting that every year there are more and more people who are engaged in buying and reselling flight gifts, and state-owned enterprises are also competing with private traders. Such a healthy rivalry plays into the hands of people who directly collect flattering products, because everyone knows the main law of the economy, the greater the demand, the higher the price.

Somehow it so happened that in the summer it is easier to find a job than in the winter. This is largely due to the fact that the friendly sun cheers up and original thoughts and ideas are born.

In recent years, it is not clear whether this is due to the not very stable financial situation of some of our fellow citizens or the profitability of such an occupation, the business of forest products has become widespread not only in the regions where this has been done for centuries, but also in central regions our country.

Thousands of berry and mushroom buyers travel around cities and towns, inviting people who want to earn some extra money during the holiday season to pick berries and mushrooms in the forest and sell them for a fee.

How much can you earn on picking berries and what is needed for this, the magazine Reconomica said a resident of the Vologda region, who collects wild berries.

Hey! My name is Julia and I come from a small village under the wonderful name Smorodinka. It is located in the Vologda region.

Where to find a job

You can’t find work for women here during the day with fire, but you need such that the salary is good and the schedule is convenient, especially if there are small children in the family.

When the eldest daughter went to kindergarten, in 2014, and youngest daughter and there was no trace, I decided to go to work. My daughter was then only 1.5 years old. Until the evening she was in the garden and I could do what I wanted. As I already said, I could not find a decent job in the village, even though I have a higher education.

District center

I began to go to work in the district center, which is 25 km from the village. The schedule was two in two and had to work until 6 pm.

I went home on a ride or in a taxi because public transport rarely goes from the village, and in the evening there is absolutely nothing to come to the village from the city. Parents helped with the child, because it was necessary to pick up the daughter from the kindergarten at five, maximum at six, in the evening.

After working like this for a couple of months, I realized that almost half of my salary goes just to the road and to eat in the city in lunch break. The salary at that time was 10 thousand rubles. I worked in a communication salon.

Mom's idea

Then my mother threw me the idea that I should quit my job and earn money on berries, especially since the season starts soon.

She said that many people in the village do this and earn my annual salary and more for several months of picking berries, as you try.

My plans

This is where it lit up for me. I decided that I, by all means, need to earn money for a car and go to work in the regional center in winter on my own.

And it is much more convenient with a child by car, you never know, you need to go to the city hospital or so, go shopping - buy clothes. Yes, and for groceries once a week it is better to go to the city than to buy at exorbitant prices in the countryside.

Picking berries is not easy.

The plans already had a second child, so the issue with the car was very acute. Using your own transport is much more economical and more convenient to go where you need to. Yes, even to go to nature, to the bank, or to relatives and girlfriends who live hundreds of kilometers from me, the car will always help out.

Buying an expensive car right away was not part of my plans, and I need a lot of money for it.

We were not given loans, since the credit history had already been spoiled by this time. So I decided to earn a hundred thousand for a domestic car in good condition.

Everything you need to work

I needed harvesters with which to pick berries, for blueberries and lingonberries, they are of the same type. And I also needed a harvester for cranberries, I also bought it. Each combine cost me 500 rubles.

My mother lent me my old rubber boots for the forest, and by autumn I bought mine, they cost only 350 rubles.

Mom had a backpack and baskets for berries, she herself likes to go to the forest, so she had this inventory in the proper amount. Well, I found old clothes for the forest in the village.

We also spent money on mosquito repellents, but we didn’t buy expensive ones, since there was not much sense from them, we used inexpensive “Raftamid” and mosquitoes and midges were nothing to us.

What to take with you to the forest

The most important thing, I'll tell you, is to take more drink with you, as thirst is constantly tormented in the forest, especially, oddly enough, in the swamp.

And it’s better to take not lemonade, but plain water, you can use water with lemon to refresh in the heat. We took sweet tea in a thermos on cool days. In addition to water and tea, you need to take some food into the forest.

I noticed that the appetite there is excellent. Even a simple piece of black bread seems yummy. My mother and I took boiled eggs, brown bread, cucumber or tomato most often into the forest. Just by this time, the harvest of these vegetables had already ripened in the garden, sometimes they took sandwiches with sausage or cheese.

I used to take candies, because the sweet added energy to me, and I ran through the forest like a fox, picking precious berries.

This is how I harvested berries.

Our transport

We intended to go to the forest on bicycles. But then, as they tried to ride 7-10 km every day, and back with heavy backpacks, they changed their minds and began to ride a scooter, thank God, my mother has this transport.

We have a driver's license, so we no longer had problems with transport to the berry picking place. The scooter, however, is small, we could hardly climb on it with our backpacks, but nothing, we coped.

Work day and household chores

We went to the forest early in the morning, right after my daughter was taken to kindergarten. Our working day began at eight o'clock and ended in the afternoon.

Duration labor day in the forest depended on weather conditions, the number of berries in the place where we arrived, and important things for which sometimes we had to return earlier.

Since my mother and I could go picking berries for only five days a week, because the kindergarten is closed on Saturday and Sunday, we tried to transfer all household chores to weekends, and during working week spend more time in the forest.

Father's help

Dad helped us a lot. He took on the duties: to heat the stoves when necessary, to cook dinners, to heat the bathhouse and other small household chores. His joints hurt a lot, he was disabled, so he could not wander through the forest and pick berries.

Later, he began to take berries at home. The salary depended on how many kilograms of berries the people would bring him, and varied from 10 to 20 thousand rubles a month.

There were several such reception points in our village, so the competition in this matter was significant. For each kilogram of berries taken, dad was paid 5 rubles. Of course, we also handed over our berries to him, and did not carry them somewhere.

My goal

I set myself a goal - to earn, that is, at least 100 thousand rubles, in one berry season, which lasts about 4 months.

I figured that I would have only 20 working days a month. So, I need to pick up berries for no less than 1.5 thousand rubles a day, but it’s better to save more for a car, and so, for other expenses, left.

My eldest daughter.

Beginning of the berry season

Berry season started in July. By this time the cloudberries had ripened.

Cloudberries, sales and prices for berries

It was not accepted at all points, since this berry spoils quickly. For example, the owner, for whom dad worked, did not accept this berry, so we either carried cloudberries to other outlets or sold them to summer residents.

For a kilogram of berries, you can earn 200-300 rubles if you sell it to one of the vacationers in our village or to those who do not go for berries, but love to eat cloudberries.

For a kilogram of cloudberry at the points of reception of berries, at first they gave 100 rubles, then the price increased to 150 rubles and at the end of the season reached 200 rubles per kilogram. While there are few berries, the price is usually lower, and when there are fewer of them, the price begins to rise. The cost of cloudberries changes every year, it all depends on the number of berries in the swamp. That year there was an average harvest of cloudberries. We collected it by hand and it took almost a whole day.

Features of sales in a big city

By the way, a ten-liter bucket of such a berry in big city, for example in St. Petersburg, could be sold for 10 thousand rubles. But again, we had to carry the berries ourselves, but we had nothing to carry. Yes, and you need to know who to sell, it is better to carry a berry to order.

Just go to the market with her - not best idea, the berry quickly deteriorates in the heat. You won’t stand with it in the rain either - this will also lead to rapid deterioration.

On cloudberries, although there was not much of it, I always managed to earn 1-1.5 thousand rubles a day, even when there were practically no berries at all, I gained 5-7 kg each. By this time, the price of a berry had risen to 200 rubles, and I fulfilled my quota for the money I earned.

How to beat the blues

It was hard, especially at the very beginning of the day, when the legs still, so to speak, did not disperse. Sometimes, there was no mood at all, picking berries - you think: it would be better to lie down on the sofa by the TV or in the garden under a currant bush, catching a tan and putting its fruits in your mouth.

Cloudberries ripen in July - it's time to swim, sunbathe, collect all ripe berries on personal plot, go to nature and barbecue.

But when such a decadent mood attacked me and I was too lazy to pick berries, I imagined how I would cut through guests, shops and just important things in my own car. The blues immediately left me and I again took up the monotonous picking of berries. I listened to the birds singing and enjoyed this natural melody. She, you know, very calms the nerves and pleases the ear, giving harmony to the soul.

Blueberry

After the cloudberries, it was the turn of the blueberries. It also begins to be collected in July, but towards the end of the month. The whole of August is the time for this berry.

It’s easier to make money on blueberries, because here you don’t have to jump over swampy bumps, and in general, there are more of this berry in the forest than cloudberries. True, the price of blueberries is less than that of cloudberries.

The reception of this berry usually starts with 50-80 rubles, they can finish taking blueberries for 150 rubles, on average, they pay 100 rubles per kilogram for it.

Since there were a lot of berries, I always gained 10-15 kilograms, even 20 worked out.

The problem was how to take the berry out of the forest. Sometimes, my mother had to go on two flights: first to take the berries, and then come back for me. We put a large bag in front of the scooter seat and put our berries in it, and even backpacks over our shoulders - and returned home if she couldn’t take all the berries at once.

Cowberry

After blueberries came the turn of lingonberries, they are harvested from the end of August and all of September. By October, usually, in our forests, all the lingonberries have already been taken out.

It grows in pine forests, which I really like. I love picking berries while walking through the dry forest. In the forest, you can also pick up porcini mushrooms, I just adore them in tandem with fried potatoes.

Along with lingonberries, you can pick up mushrooms.

Lingonberries are remarkable in that they can be saved (they do not spoil). As the price rises, you can immediately hand over this berry in a bunch.

That year there was a big harvest of lingonberries, so we made good money on it. Our pine forests are located closer than swamps, so we didn’t have to travel far. We even had time to go for berries several times a day when the weather was fine.

Our trick

I could collect lingonberries and 30 kilograms a day, we got 120 rubles per kilogram for it, in the village they accepted it, of course, cheaper. The starting price for lingonberries at reception points is approximately 40 rubles, then, by the end of the season, it begins to rise. We did not sell the berries in the village, but took them to the regional center to the market. A car from Cherepovets came there and the berry was taken at 100-120 rubles per kilogram.

Naturally, we had to ask relatives to help us transport lingonberries to the market, but they willingly agreed for money.

We hoarded berries all week and took them to the market on Friday. I could earn up to 15 thousand rubles in a week on lingonberries. It all depended on how many berries I gathered during these 5 days.

Cranberry

Cranberries have replaced lingonberries. It happened in September.

This berry is considered very valuable, in big cities it can be sold very expensive, but again, this is not our story. We hoarded berries and, just like lingonberries, went to sell them to the market in the regional center.

For cranberries, more than 150 rubles per kilogram could not be helped out. For receivers, this was the final cost of this berry.

Then there were not so many cranberries, so I rarely managed to collect more than 10-12 kg per day, but I had my own 1.5 thousand rubles a day and even a little more. Our season ended at the end of October. Then it just became very cold and snow fell, under which the cranberries were no longer visible.

My dream has come true

During the berry season, which lasted for me for 4 months, I earned about 150 thousand rubles. I bought a car that I had been dreaming about for a long time. My first car is a "fifteen".

I began to visit friends who live far from me more often. We no longer had to adapt to public transport or ask someone to go to the city on business. Then the second daughter was born and now in terms of movement we feel free and easy.

When the second daughter was born, we could go anywhere in our car at any time.

how i live now

Now I am officially unemployed. I decided that I would pick berries in the summer and autumn, and the rest of the time I would devote myself to the children and the house, I would also sometimes taxi so that there was an extra penny for life.

We don’t have it in the village, but people often go to the regional center. For a trip to the city there and back, I take 600 rubles. I always manage to go two or three times a week, and at the same time I do my business there. It's very profitable.

On the maternal capital we bought a house in the village, so now we live separately from my mother. We have our own farm, I have enough things to do at home. When the children grow up and go to school, they will be more independent, then I will go to work, perhaps to the city, and I will go there by car. Now I am satisfied with this state of affairs.

What I earn from berries plus my husband's salary (20 thousand rubles) is enough for us to live until the next berry season. Well, a part-time job in a taxi helps us out.

Features of picking berries

I want to note that cranberries are such a berry that you can pick in November if the weather is right. You can collect it and how the snow will come down, which happens in May.

Many berry growers, including my mother, open the season in May.

They first pick May cranberries (they usually charge 90-120 rubles per kilogram), then they switch to strawberries, but they don’t accept them at the outlets and they have to look for customers or go to the market to sell them. The average price for strawberries is 150-200 rubles per liter.

Then comes the turn of cloudberries, blueberries, lingonberries and completes the berry season, again, cranberries. It turns out that berries can be harvested from May to November, if the weather allows.

Difficulties of work

Collecting berries is not as easy as it seems at first glance. It's good to walk through a dry forest, picking berries and singing songs, but when bad weather rages, it's simply unbearable. IN cold weather hands get very cold, especially in October on cranberries.

At the end of the season, it just becomes physically difficult, because many kilograms of berries have to be pulled out of the forest. It helps only the belief that your dream is about to come true.

The car is expensive pleasure in terms of content. Choose your car wisely with future expenses in mind.

I advise those who want to make money on the berry to set clear goals and go towards them, no matter what.

The first mushrooms appeared on the shelves of the capital's markets a few days ago. To the question: “Where are the chanterelles from?” - the sellers grin: "Local, from the Moscow region." But it turned out that the merchants are cunning. Mushrooms are now mainly brought to the capital from the Vladimir region.

That's where I decided to go. I think I will buy it there, and then resell it in Moscow. I'll try myself in the mushroom business...

"COME EARLY!"

A friend of the mushroom picker Volodya advised me to go stock up on the market in the Vladimir town of Sobinka, which is 150 km from Moscow. Here locals bring goods from surrounding forests. I leave by car at nine in the morning, but due to traffic jams, I arrive in Sobinka only at noon. Here I am disappointed: there are no mushrooms on the shelves!

Son, you should have come in the evening! - my grandmother, who sells blueberries, takes pity on me. - Mushrooms are picked early in the morning. Buyers come to us for them, with boxes. And they buy in bulk.

Yeah, and give them only small mushrooms, they don’t take large ones so that they don’t rot in a few days, ”a woman from a neighboring point grumbles with displeasure. - And they pay meager money for this - only 100 rubles per kilo of chanterelles!

Women persuade me to buy berries from them. A one and a half liter jar of blueberries is given for only a hundred.

Cheaper - only in the forest! - Granny's berries are passed to me. - And since you really wanted mushrooms, go to Lakinsk.

Lakinsk is a town about the same as Sobinka. Many do not have work here, so the fruit and berry season is expected here, like a vacation in Anapa.

We sold the mushrooms! - throws up his hands happy local Egor. He has already managed to exchange the earned rubles for vodka.

And like this every day, - looking sideways at Yegor, his wife Marina sighs. - We go to the forest together in the morning, and this one drinks almost all the money ...

WHERE YOU HAVE ASSEMBLED, THERE AND SOLD

Mushrooms were found only on the way back. At the traders on the side of the federal highway Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod. Their prices are biting: a kilogram of chanterelles - three hundred!

Nevertheless, at the forest market (about thirty people trade here) there is a whole line of foreign cars: drivers willingly buy mushrooms and berries.

Why are they so expensive for you? - I ask the sellers, nodding at the chanterelles. - Did you bring them from Kamchatka?

Not from any Kamchatka. - The woman looks at me with condemnation. - And dear ones, because there are few mushrooms now ...

For the sake of the experiment, I buy two bags (each contains about a kilo of mushrooms). 250 rubles per bag.

And if there are chanterelles with grebes mixed? I ask suspiciously.

There are no bugs there! We have been selling here for seven years, no one complained, - the aunt dismissed.

“Well, yes,” I think, “whoever eats toadstools will no longer come to be indignant ...”

MARKET SECRETS

I decide to resell the purchased mushrooms on the same day. Returning to the capital, I head to the covered market - "Butyrsky". There are no places inside the market: they are bought here in advance. I sit down at the exit, next to the grandmothers. They sell berries and vegetables here every day.

Are you being kicked out of here? - I turn to a neighbor sorting through strawberries.

How! she exclaims. - Through day shuhayut.

Are they asking for money?

What can we take from us, old women, - she sighs and draws in: - We buy strawberries, fresh, only from the garden!

And we take mushrooms! - I pick it up and for some reason add: - From the forest.

People look at my good with apprehension.

Why are you selling mushrooms, boy? - the plump lady asks me sternly.

Three hundred! For the package! - I name the price. And I think to myself: I need to somehow weld ...

I saw in the morning, they sold the same number of mushrooms for 200, and you for 300, - the woman mutters. - Baryga!

It's a shame: I myself bought a bag for 250!

Don't worry, my neighbor reassures me. And she looks at my jar of blueberries: - How much do you sell berries?

Berries? For 200. - I am modestly silent about the fact that I bought them for 100.

Granny grabs my one and a half liters of blueberries and pours the berries into glasses. Each - 120 rubles. She got five glasses from my jar. Total - 600 rubles. This is the market economy...

My grandmother's blueberries were sorted out in just half an hour. And she again began sorting through her strawberries, laying out the rotten berries with their whole side up.

If they notice, I’ll say that it’s rained, - the woman says conspiratorially.

In theory, all goods on the market should be checked by sanitary doctors. But no one came up to me for several hours. Either they didn’t notice, or they decided that there was nothing to take from me ...

An obese pensioner next door sells pickles. Transfers them from the pelvis to the jars. One cucumber slips out of his hands and falls on the pavement. Grandmother picks it up and puts it in a jar.

It will sour! - I'm surprised.

They will eat it ... - yawning, the grandmother waves her hand. And advises:

And you won’t sell your mushrooms today. Go to the subway! People from work will go and buy up.

I collect the goods and trudge to the Savelovskaya metro station. I stand like a poor relative, holding mushrooms in my hands.

About 30 minutes later, a man stopped next to me.

Why are you selling mushrooms?

I look at the chanterelles shriveled from the sun. And I hide my eyes from shame:

Take both packages for 300...

Y-yes, I'm not a merchant. Took chanterelles for 500. Sold for 300...

While walking home, I calculated the losses: on a trip to the Vladimir region, I spent 700 rubles on gasoline, 500 on mushrooms, and another 100 on berries. A total of 1300. Only 500 rubles returned from them - 200 for berries, 300 for mushrooms.

But if I bought mushrooms from the natives in bulk, about twenty kilograms at a time, on the cheap, then I would have remained in the black. Judge for yourself: for 20 kilos in Sobinka, I would give two thousand rubles. Plus for gasoline 700 re. Total 2700 rubles of expenses. In the markets of Moscow, a kilogram of fresh forest mushrooms costs 400 rubles. If you manage to sell it, you will get 8000. Taking into account the costs - 5300 rubles of net profit!