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  • From: Errol Castens <castens AT peoplepc.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] tent/shelters
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:42:59 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

If you want to save most of the $40 for weights, you can pour coffee cans
full of cement and set small bolts vertically in them before it hardens.
EZ-Ups have bolt holes for just such as that; just put a nut on each, and
you're done. Affords a little extra headroom, too.

Errol Castens
Oxford, Mississippi
Zone 7

-----Original Message-----
>From: logrock <logrock AT bellsouth.net>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2006 11:12 AM
>To: quiltingsue AT earthlink.net, 'Market Farming'
><market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] tent/shelters
>
>I asked this same question last year, and we ended up with the EZ Up
>from Sam's. They only carry one model and it was $200. We then went to
>the sporting good store and bought weights that look like dumbbell
>weights with a notch in them...they were in the camping section. They
>slip around each leg, and do a good job of holding the thing in place.
>Everyone at our market that had purchased a cheaper canopy either has
>gotten a better one or wished they would have in the beginning after
>seeing how easy ours went up. We were very happy with the canopy and
>the weights. I think the weights were $40 for the box (4 weights).
>
>Patty
>NW Georgia
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Sue Wells
>Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:30 AM
>To: 'Market Farming'
>Subject: Re: [Market-farming] tent/shelters
>
>
>
>What is a good shelter for Farmers Markets? I know many bought the cheap
>ones from K-Mart and the Christmas shop last year, a few survived
>through the season, but not all. I used a big red umbrella, but couldn't
>keep shade on my vegetables. I know that hurt my sales.
>
>We have a lot of winds, and sometimes wicked ones during the market. For
>my umbrella, my husband built a fairly heavy table and put a hole in the
>middle of it, for the umbrella, plus, we had a 50 lb stand under the
>table for the umbrella.
>
>One vendor used the holes of concrete blocks for the legs of her shelter
>to keep it from blowing down. They had to get a new shelter this year.
>
>I have looked at the EZ up ones, and the Instant canopy Caravan. Costco
>has the caravan for $187.99 now. With sidewalls, bag, etc.
>
>I started out with a very cheap shelter for my farm stand, it did not
>last long, before the wind bent the poles. But I am wanting one for the
>markets now, not the farm stand. We have a lot of wind where I live.
>
>I have to set this up by myself, but I am thinking if I also used one of
>the concrete blocks (I can't think of what they are called) and put a
>leg into the block, and then pulling the other side away from then
>block, I can set it up by myself, taking more time, but I think I can do
>it.
>
>I can't afford a really expensive shelter, I mean not $350 or up. I even
>hate to go after a $300 one.
>
>Thank you all for your great help and ideas!
>
>Sue Wells
>
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