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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:25:09 -0600

I'm curious now Allan. What does the chef do with the chickweed. And good luck building that market.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html

----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:53 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market


Chickweed seems to grow more abundantly around here in the fall than
in the spring!

They say it likes fertile soil. I guess it's a good sign, then,
that's its choking all of our beds!

I just had a chef ask for some chickweed. I assume he's looking for a case.

Anyone have any idea of what a fair price is for selling cut
chickweed from an organic farm? I'm thinking probably $20 for a 10lb
case, but another grower in the area is getting $18 a lb for radish
micro-greens, so I have to wonder.

Thanks

-Allan
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