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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw AT chilitech.net>]

Marketing is one of the real problems I have with the farm business.
Farmers' Markets are so hit-or-miss. Somedays when I didn't have much to
sell, I sold out in the first half hour and had to sit the other 3.5 hours
(I'm the Market Manager, so I can't leave). Other days, I bring lots of
produce home. I never know if half the vendors will have lettuce or I'll
be the only one. One of our vendors has a bucket of beautiful green onions
every week. She rarely sells any, but has rows and rows of them planted.
Even in our rural county, there are 42,000 people, and they all eat. We
raise fresh, tasty, nutritious food. There's GOT to be a better way to
make the connection! That's one reason I'm thinking of a farmer
coop...selling to restaurants, maybe schools (there's a big farm-to-school
program in Pennsylvania). If market farmers had a guarenteed market for
their produce, and didn't have to sit in the rain all day hoping to sell
it, they might be more willing to grow more.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VAN DELL JORDAN" <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:49 AM
Subject: [Homestead] marketing


> Please don't be too quick to take the conversation off
> list.  I'm interested in anything about marketing,
> what products can pay and related subjects.  As I am
> not yet in research mode, and due to the way I learn,
> any information / ideas I pick up here will be
> helpful.
>
> Lynn, have you tried going back to say $1.30 or
> something in between.
> Van Dell
>