[Market-farming] Managing lettuce (and veggie) glut

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Sun May 17 16:39:07 EDT 2009


Huh. I never thought of trying that with the sweet peppers, though I 
certainly do it with hots. I'll have to try it with the sweets this 
year and see what happens.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

On May 17, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Willie McKemie wrote:

> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:32:17PM -0400, Road's End Farm wrote:
>
>> one bag. I sell lots of mixed-bag lettuce, but very little of the same
>> varieties as individual heads.
>
> I've noticed a similar situation with bell peppers.  If I allow
> customers to pick their own peppers, they agonize over their
> selections, tend to buy fewer, and not buy the colors I need to move.
> I remove color and size decisions by putting them in mesh bags with a
> nice selection of colors but distributed to use all available peppers.
> The bagged peppers seem to sell in higher volume and I come closer to
> getting rid of all my peppers.  Not just large ones or ones of certain
> colors.  It seems that putting the colors together in a bag makes them
> more attractive than stacks of peppers sorted by color.
>
>
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