[Market-farming] Managing lettuce (and veggie) glut
Road's End Farm
organic87 at frontiernet.net
Sun May 17 12:32:17 EDT 2009
On May 17, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Andy Fellenz wrote:
> TIme at the market and good quality (nicely shaped, good size and
> clean) will distinguish your product. What you don't want to do is
> drop your prices and sell too cheap just to get rid of it. You are
> better off selling at an appropriate price and donating your excess to
> a
> food pantry or composting it than to sell it all cheap.
I strongly agree with that. -- Try selling by variety name, also; and
try selling mixed bags with three or so different varieties / colors in
one bag. I sell lots of mixed-bag lettuce, but very little of the same
varieties as individual heads.
> Being early can
> also help a little, late not so much on many things as people get tired
> of certain fruits and vegetables and won't buy them after the regular
> season. I used to see this a lot with sweet corn and watermelon - they
> would sell real well until Labor Day, but not well at all afterwards.
>
This depends on the crop, I think. Around here, at least, people will
buy lettuce any time of year. And people who get in the habit of buying
your lettuce when nobody else has it will be more likely to buy yours
next spring when everyone has it (at least, assuming that it's high
quality).
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 1387 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/market-farming/attachments/20090517/eb612661/attachment.bin
More information about the Market-farming
mailing list