[Market-farming] introduction
Lynn Wigglesworth
lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 13 14:05:46 EDT 2009
We only have two grocery stores within 20 miles...BiLo and Weis. They seem
very rigid and 'corporate'. There's a little mom and pop store...I
sometimes sell excess eggs through them, but they grow a lot of their own
produce. A new produce store (large farm stand, really) opened last year;
they grow mostly sweet corn and buy the rest of the produce; I will
certainly talk to them, and have a good feeling about them supporting local
farmers.
Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] introduction
> Hi Lynn-
>
> When I first started contacting grocery stores I was worried about things
> like product and liability insurance, but to my surprise my local stores
> were
> very welcoming and this insurance was not necessary. Actually they were
> surprised I even asked about it. I am located in Western NYS and the
> biggest grocery
> chain we have is Wegmans. I approached my local Wegmans and it was very
> simple- the produce manager gave me some paperwork to fill out and they
> are always
> looking for local farmers to work with if they need the particular
> produce.
> They do have some regulations now with certain types of produce like broad
> leaf
> greens and tomatoes- the farmers have to have a state certification
> showing
> they had been inspected which is not cheap I guess. Pumpkins luckily were
> not
> part of this. I think I have made good connections with three grocery
> stores
> here that we will try to work with this fall. The managers were very
> helpful
> and eager to work with local farmers. Hopefully your stores may begin to
> open
> up to that more- did you try the smaller grocery stores?
>
> Sincerely
> Heather</HTML>
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