[Market-farming] Harvesting Dry Black-Eyed Peas
Kelly Saxer
kellysaxer at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 20 19:51:47 EDT 2007
Does anyone have any advice for hand-harvesting a small field (about 1/2
acre) of dried black-eye peas. I usually grow black-eyed peas to harvest as
"green" beans, but I have a 1/2 acre section that got ahead of me and has
already dried on the plant. Any tips for hand-harvesting dry beans?....I'm
new to this.
Thanks in advance,
Kelly
Desert Roots Farm
Queen Creek, Arizona
>From: "cjmaness at juno.com" <cjmaness at juno.com>
>Reply-To: Market Farming <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
>To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Sales
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:41:04 GMT
>
>We are in a college town as well. We have the support of the faculty,
>but... they really aren't big spenders. They will buy a box of tomatoes, or
>squash, and that's it. We don't get many students either. A few, but not
>many. We have tried advertising in the college paper, with limited results.
>We received a grant this year from the dept. of Ag. and our board decided
>to spend the money on advertising. We have advertised on our local radio
>stations all summer. The down side is: This was the year of the flood. So
>many of our growers, ourselves included have a very limited amount of
>produce, particularly now. Business is great for the bread makers, and
>certified kitchen people though. I don't think any of them are experiencing
>the "August slump" and, I think if we had more produce we could certainly
>be selling a lot more than we are now. I know I'm seeing lots of new faces.
>What worries me is that they are coming for tomatoes, or cucumbers which
>are both in short supply and will be frustrated by the lack of and won't
>come back. We have tried to explain that this year has been unusual, and to
>please bear with us. Who knows how it will all turn out though.
>Carla in Oklahoma
>
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