[Market-farming] Lettuce price?

Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 1 21:10:33 EDT 2009


Elaine; That's probably what I'll do...have everything bagged and priced and 
have an honor system when I can't be around.
I haven't done that in the past because I also sell meat, and had hundreds 
of dollars worth of meat at the farm stand...this year my butcher is booked 
solid, so I won't have any meat available until August. So there will only 
be veggies till then.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elaine Granata" <elainegranata at msn.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Lettuce price?


> Lynn:  I know of a farmer who does an honor system farm stand at her 
> farm --
> she has a cash box at the stand and people help themselves and leave their
> money in the cash box.  She has almost never been ripped off, as I recall.
>
> Might that be an option for you?
>
> Elaine
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>
> To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:58 AM
> Subject: [Market-farming] Lettuce price?
>
>
>> What do you all get for mixed baby lettuce? I raise Johnny's Wildfire 
>> mix;
>> pretty red and green leaf lettuce. I cut it young, triple-wash and bag it
>> in
>> 1/2 lb. bags (that mix goes for $3.99/half-pound in the grocery store).
>>
>> In the past, I've had an on-farm stand, but I'm a one-person operation 
>> and
>> a
>> farm stand took too much time away from farming. I decided this year to
>> try
>> selling through someone else's farm stand here that features 'local
>> produce'. She offered me $.50/bag for my baby lettuce (she sells it for
>> $1/bag...I was getting $2/bag 2 years ago). I also have early green beans
>> (probably the only local ones available this early...I start them in cell
>> packs and transplant under row covers), and she offered an insulting 
>> price
>> for those, too..
>>
>> Our farmers' market in town has 2-3 vendors, and they mostly just sell
>> stuff
>> to each other..some weeks they don't make the $5 vendor fee.  I don't
>> raise
>> enough to justify taking it 50+ miles to the nearest decent farmers'
>> market.
>> Is selling in my own farm stand, at my own prices, spending more on
>> advertising than I make some weeks, the only answer? Sheesh...no wonder
>> farmers need day jobs!
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>> Tioga Co. PA
>>
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