DIY Market Caddy

When our daughter, Hanne, was transitioning from pork farming to vegetable and flower farming, she needed easily transportable, attractive, wooden display caddies to hold water-filled, quart jars of flowers at her farmers market stand. While she assigned building vegetable display boxes to a family workday, my assignment was to create canning jar crates for flower transport.

I figured an eight-jar crate was about right for weight and convenience, possibly six crates max, holding 48 jars altogether.

A crate for flowers should have a handle tall enough to be above the tops of the flowers. Canning jars need dividers to keep them from banging against each other, and the sides of the caddy should be tall enough to keep the jars from tipping but short enough to allow jars to be lifted in and out easily.

I also thought Hanne’s caddies could be stacked two high as steps for display at the market (the