[Market-farming] Fresh produce

sunny3 at wt.net sunny3 at wt.net
Thu Sep 20 14:37:39 EDT 2007


Hi Bill, just wondering where you are in East Texas.  Wow, 25 acres is not small to me!
Sunny
Rafter G Ranch
Coldspring, TX

> Phil, I am a small grower, 25 acres. grow mostly pepper. I sell to our local stores.
> East Texas area, I sell Brookshire Grocery Co., Brookshire Bros. Co. I also sell to
> ten Wal-Mart super centers. And supply some vendors for farm markets. I haven't been
> able to sell to our local schools because they don't cook anymore. All there food is
> boil a bag stuff from food service suppliers. Bill
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>   Bill and Steve I really agree.  The junk I have seen in the stores and some of the
> markets we attend, I wouldn't take home and feed the hog's.  We saw some sprouts
> the other day that were buggy and had black spots on them and the vendor was
> actually trying to sell them.  Stuff in the grocery store's are not any better or
> maybe worst, but the wholesale produce companies and the groceries will not buy
> local unless we can furnish year around, what a line of !!!!!!!!!!!! .  I have
> been working with the Armstrong Research Farm trying to establish a regional food
> system to supply our local schools, hospitals, and restraunts.  After working on
> this for a year, here comes all the shippers getting their business on board
> because they don't have the expenses we have.  We all have hoop building, coolers,
> transplanters, tractors and etc. All they have is a pickup to go to their auction
> and haul their shipped in crap to the account that we are serving.
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>   Phil
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