[Market-farming] Anyone want tomatoes?
jay sleichter
jaysleichter at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 26 13:01:52 EDT 2009
Thanks for all the ideas. Just when I start to wonder what I am going to do, I start asking around and things come up. I am going to be taking a bunch of tomatoes to a grocery store in a neighboring town (where I grew up). They will buy all the tomatoes I can bring. That is what they said. They will pay $1.00/ pound. That is less than I am getting now, but more than I would get. We are also going to can some and freeze some. Thanks for all the ideas.
Jay
--- On Sun, 7/26/09, Richard Stewart <rstewart at zoomtown.com> wrote:
From: Richard Stewart <rstewart at zoomtown.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Anyone want tomatoes?
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 9:28 AM
We have seven families that do workshares with us and part of what they are waiting for is large amounts of tomatoes to can.
I highly recommend looking into this especially with the economy in the take like it is. Unemployment is 11.3% here in the Cincinnati area and rising. Three of our workers are exceptional. One of them is a full-time violinist with the local symphony. Free food and a chance to work out without having to actually pay for a gym membership...in return after a couple hours of good hands on training, you get four to five hours of labor out of each and it makes a HUGE amount of difference, especially from the ones that REALLY enjoy doing it.
I sell at a single market and a restaurant and price between 2.00 and 4.00 a pound depending on the type.
Same deal with squash and cucumbers. Almost nothing goes to waste save what gets a bit taken out of it by a raccoon or turtle.
Richard StewartCarriage House FarmNorth Bend, Ohio
An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855
(513) 967-1106http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.comrstewart@zoomtown.com
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