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  • From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
  • To: <avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Farmers' Market question
  • Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:27:13 -0500

I think diatomatious earth will work. But, you really shouldn't worry about your well water, unless the well is only three feet deep. The standard ant bait at WallyWorld using pyrethrum is about as safe as you can get and will be decomposed in a week or less.

TxBeeFarmer
West Texas Zone 7b

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brigette Leach" <avalonfarmshomegrown AT earthlink.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Farmers' Market question


Lehman's Hardware has all sorts of non-electric appliances. Have they
checked out such an option?
Brigette
Avalon Farms

road's end farm wrote:



On May 26, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:

One of the vendors for our new farmers' market just asked about
plugging
in their freezer. We are a small market located in a vacant
lot....we have
no access to electricity, water, bathrooms, or anything else. Do
other
small markets provide electricity to vendors? Is this something I
should
add to my list of things to worry about?


There are markets that have electric hookups, but the one I go to
doesn't, and neither do some of the other markets in the immediate
area. A few vendors bring ice chests and ice (for example, people
selling cheese). Depending on what they want to bring, you might need
to check health regulations as to what they can legally do for
refrigeration at a no-electric market; but I don't think the market
needs to have electric hookups, lots of them don't. It won't matter to
most vendors.

Small markets don't usually have bathrooms, either. However, unless
it's an extremely short market, you're going to have to figure out
what the vendors can use (by the time you include setup and takedown,
vendors at a four hour market may be onsite a good six hours.) Usually
there's a store, town building, or something similar within a minute
or two's fast walk that vendors can duck into that won't mind vendors
using the bathroom (offer a little free produce or something if
necessary). If there really isn't anything at all in the area, you
might want to consider a portapotty, the type with a handwashing station.

Those who need water should be able to bring their own: a water jug or
two, or a water cooler, or something of the sort. I bring drinking
water and water to wash my hands if necessary, as well as to sprinkle
greens with in hot weather; a plastic jug of water and one that starts
the day off as ice will generally do it for me.

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

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