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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Has anyone considered a cooperative where different
producers would communicate with each other to make
sure that the right amount of each thing is available
as much as possible?? 
Without any experience in that area, I'm guessing that
to make sales you would need a market open more than
once a week. I'm also sure that would be very
difficult to run and create an overhead that would cut
into profits.  
Has anyone looked into some kind of cooperative
agreement with local food stores, or maybe even some
other business that is already there??
Van Dell

--- Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw AT chilitech.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> 
> 
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