[Market-farming] Re: Selling for other growers

Willie McKemie mf at austinfarm.org
Fri Sep 3 07:55:25 EDT 2004


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:55:13AM -0400, Lucy Goodman wrote:
> 
> You are starting down a slippery slope 
> because if you are reselling what's to stop 
> others from doing the same? And what is to 
> stop someone from buying non local food and 
> selling at the market? Rules? if you have a 
> no reselling rule and you break others will 
> follow suit and go much farther than the 
> local farm to get their produce, this is 
> human nature. If you allow reselling expect 
> it to be source from non local sources 
> eventually.  If you make the market a 
> resellers market the customers lose out 
> because they are expecting a farmers' market 
> and you will have a farmerless market. Also 
> resellers can sell all day if they have too 
> and at lower prices than a true farmer 

Well said!  Thanks for making the case that seems so obvious to those 
with farmers marketing experience.

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