[Market-farming] Selling Live plants at a Farm Market

Sharon and Steve shopkins at tdstelme.net
Thu Jan 3 17:20:17 EST 2008


Maine has a $5.00 lisence for folk with real small retail space so I have 
only sold from the back of my truck the last couple of years. Since my truck 
is part of my display at market I  have a
4 x 8  pallet made so that 3½ inch square pots fit snuggly between the 1 x 3 
top slats, when I get to town I can slide it out of the truck so that one 
end is on a horse and one is still on the tailgate. Back at home it slides 
out onto 2 horses and can be watered and refilled with fresh product. I have 
a plywood layer between the top of the bed and the truck cap so that I have 
place for a second layer of stuff.....a bit less convenient but still 
usefull.

My favorite product would be a Patio tomato grown in a Kord fiber 9 x 7 Rose 
Pot, with a sturdy cedar stake, which has a good crop showing, sell best for 
me at Fathers day and on into the summer to about mid July.
Probably any large pot would do but I like the fiber as it can be planted 
direct into the ground or a larger pot by any pale thumbed customer.
Two years ago these were fetching $5.00 here in this poverty pocket.

For best product and least hassel at the market I did all the bedding
in 3½ pots as they will hold a days worth of water on the road and offer the 
customer a chance to mix and match or just buy one plant if that is what 
they needed. All these I can plant up here after Mothers Day makes space 
available from 128 plugs, so there is no/almost no heat.

MAsteveINE










----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew R. King" <andrew.king2 at worldnet.att.net>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Selling Live plants at a Farm Market


>I was wondering if anyone in the group sold plants at their farmers market.
> If you do, what do you start from seed and which plants are started from
> plugs you buy?
> Any pointer on how to transport plants to market?
>
> Andy King
> Sunflower King's Farm
> PA Zone 6
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