[Market-farming] quality produce in California?

Steven Moize Shady_Grove_Farm at msn.com
Mon Sep 17 19:00:13 EDT 2007


Here in NC we have the same problem.  Our "Nationally known, locally grown market" is often times full of wholesale produce.  When items show up at market way too early in the season or the produce is way too uniform in appearance it is obvious to us real farmers where it came from, yet the consumers are unaware that is the same old trucked in grocery store fare...

Our local farmers markets keep touting that they are local, growers only markets.  Yet they don't enforce those very rules, especially with the "in crowd" who are usually the real violators.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wiediger, Alison<mailto:alison.wiediger at hart.kyschools.us> 
  To: Market Farming<mailto:market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org> 
  Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 2:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [Market-farming] quality produce in California?


  My in-laws, who live in Southern California,  complain about this very thing.  And, it is the case in many farmers' markets, all across the nation.  In our own market town, Bowling Green, KY, it was the case until we helped start a new, producer only market 4 years ago, and the old market is still going.  Most consumers have no idea they are buying produce purchased from a wholesaler in Nashville and other locations, and, sad to say, many wouldn't care if they did.  Our state supports these resellers markets with their Kentucky Proud advertising program no differently from markets that actually sell Kentucky grown produce.  Sad...

   

  Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm

   


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  From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bill Shoemaker
  Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:50 PM
  To: Market Farming
  Subject: Re: [Market-farming] quality produce in California?

   

  It would not surprise me to learn that there are vendors at the market who buy their produce from a wholesale shipping terminal, or a distributor. It IS the same thing found in supermarkets. 

   

  Bill

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