[Homestead] Produce auctions

Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 9 12:31:42 EST 2008


The difference between a produce auction and a Farmers' Market is that 
produce auctions usually allow produce from other areas or countries. Many 
Farmers' Markets today require the produce to be locally grown.

We have one farmer who runs a farm stand, but brings in a lot of produce 
from the auction. He used to sell at the local Farmers' Market, but his kids 
told people that they grow their own produce....yeah, like bags of oranges 
and watermelons in May. They kicked him out of the Farmers' Market, but he 
set up his own stand and does great business.

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob" <becida at comcast.net>
To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 1:26 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Produce auctions


>I was looking at http://userpages.bright.net/~fwo/index.html and saw
> that he had a newer web site so I went and took a look
> http://www.brightdsl.net/~fwo/ . This web site has talk about produce
> auctions. I'd never thought of produce auctions before and now I've
> heard of them.
> There is a listing of 55 known produce auctions in IL, IN, IA, KY,
> MD, MI, MO, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA and Ontario. It's an interesting
> site and is maybe worth a visit.
>
>
>
> Rob
> becida at comcast.net
>
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