How much money can you earn in the season on pickles and marinades. The story of Kirov Natalia Nazarova

A resident of Kirovsk, Mogilev region turned home conservation into a stable source of income. Natalia Nazarova paired with sister Svetlana in the season twist about two thousand cans of pickles and marinades. Each hobby earns about six thousand rubles. Correspondents of “SB Week” went to the Kirovchanka to the dacha to learn how to turn the cellar into a successful startup and what sunsets are in demand.

Kitchen in a private house in the agro-town of Borovitsa, which is nine kilometers from Kirovsk, resembles a small cannery: cans, covers, labels ... In the air - a thick aroma of garlic, pepper, eggplants. 59-year-old Natalia Nazarova more than 35 years working in the local raypo and sunset routine does not consider:

- I am retired, but I continue to work as a cashier. I live in Kirovsk, and I prefer to do sunsets here, in my father's house, where my roots, my garden. Village traditions, the experience of generations, mother's lessons of cooking and became the basis of small business. We have four parents: two sons and two daughters. The farm was large: three cows, five pigs, chickens. Everything was grown on 25 acres, except for these – blue ones, says Natalia Vasilievna, roasting eggplant in a pan. From the age of ten, I helped my mother put pickles and jam for the winter. She was especially good at soups and sodium with mushrooms. Borovics were dried with bags. Foxes, berries, loins, butter from the forest home pulled buckets. We rolled about 100 liters. I cook mushrooms on the street, in a bourgeois stove. Wonderful things happen: people, having tried once, order again and again. According to Natalia Vasilyevna, mushrooms - in salads, soups, pickled, salted - bring maximum profit. They are available for free, it remains only to turn the product into an exclusive delicacy.

- In the family, the main specialist in mushrooms is sister Svetlana, lives in the agro-town of Batsevichi, Klichevsky district, says Natalia Vasilyevna. We do conservation separately, but we implement it together on Internet sites. We also travel to Minsk to collect supplies. This year I spent about 600 rubles on banks and lids, for 40 rubles I bought a rolling machine. We take salt and sugar in bulk, so it is more profitable, sugar has already gone packs of 30. Plus vinegar, but I try to add it to a minimum to preserve the natural taste of the product. We buy labels on marketplaces, and we turn everything into banks that we have grown on our sites.

The niece of Natalia Vasilyevna, the daughter of his older brother Gennady, also took up the conservation, and sells sunsets in Bobruisk. In the subject and his brother Alexander. While we were communicating with the hostess, he brought a whole bucket of lingonberries from the forest - both to eat and to jam. His master does a little: cherry without seeds, plum, from dandelions, jelly from blueberries. Jokes:

- I don’t use my maiden name, and I have sugar. I specialize more in vegetables, preserve them according to proven family recipes, but I also bring something of my own.

- For myself for the winter I put cans of 200 different liters, and the rest - for sale. Everyone has different tastes: son Andrei loves brine, granddaughter Sonya - pickled gorishons. For cucumbers - salted, barrel - a great demand, they fly away instantly - Natalia Nazarova conducts a tour of the barn with banks. - This is only part of the sunsets, there is still in the basement and city apartment.

Kirov hostess began selling marinades six years ago with the filing of a friend. She tried, appreciated and insisted: “Offer people through social networks, there will be demand.” I photographed cans with labels, put them in local groups. I was worried if the countrymen would respond, because many have their own houses, gardens, conservation. But orders went in. At first it rolled about 100 cans, now one customer can buy so many at a time. For example, a woman from Bobruisk makes an order for two thousand rubles every year, Natalia said. With the expansion of the assortment, the geography of supplies increases: there are Minsk residents among customers. Sunsets are taken by people of different ages, young housewives do not want to waste time on cooking, and the elderly want to try new recipes. According to Natalia Vasilyevna, the price plays an important role. Her marinades are cheaper than the shops. For example, a jar of dried tomatoes with a volume of 250 milliliters in retail chains costs from 16 to 40 rubles, and a Kirovchanka woman - 12.

On the day of our arrival, the woman prepared an eggplant salad with sweet and spicy pepper, garlic. We've tried it. It's delicious. Such reviews to the hostess, who on her weekends from seven in the morning to nine in the evening at the stove, stimulate:

- When people are happy, I gain strength and desire to work!

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In Belarus, for the legal sale of surplus vegetables grown on your own utility or summer cottage, you do not need to register an individual entrepreneur and pay income tax, but you must issue a certificate from the local executive committee or village council. It is issued free of charge at the request of a citizen in the executive committee or village council at the location of the land. It lists the crops and the amount of the crop. Representatives of the Executive Committee can pre-examine the site to confirm the actual volumes.