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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

The nearest large auction is maybe 100 miles from me  (in Mifflinburg). They 
only take large quantities, not the 20 pounds of lettuce I'd have a week  in 
May. I grew in amounts a small Farmers' Market could handle. Lettuce was one 
thing that usually sold pretty well, though, because I sold it for half the 
per pound weight the supermarket charged...I was still amazed that I could 
get $2 for a bag (about 1 pound)...it was SO cheap and easy to grow.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob" <becida AT comcast.net>
To: <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>; <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Produce auctions


> At  11/9/2008 12:48 PM,bob ford wrote:
> > Lynn, that is when you ask them to taste one of your tomatoes.  The
> > reason I'm willing to pay higher prices for produce (or meat or
> > seafood) is all about taste .  Local taste better (produce
> > anyway.  Local shrimp ,here, is pond raised freshwater - not the
> > same).............bboford
>
> It was just May in PA, Lynn didn't have tomatoes yet, too early. The
> places that import the food did. That's why I wondered about the
> auction as a market for what Lynn (and others) did have in May.
>
> Rob
> becida AT comcast.net
>
>
>
>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 11/9/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Produce auctions
> > > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > > Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 1:44 PM
> > > We had an odd situation here: we had a Farmers' Market,
> > > the guy who grew
> > > some stuff/bought some from auction, and a supermarket all
> > > selling within
> > > site of each other. It was an easy walk from one to the
> > > other. People would
> > > come to me at the Farmers' Market and complain that we
> > > didn't have tomatoes
> > > in May, while the other 2 places did. They didn't want
> > > to hear "locally
> > > grown", they just wanted tomatoes.
> > >
> > > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > > Tioga Co. PA
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Cathy" <goosecreekfarm AT gmail.com>
> > > To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 1:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Produce auctions
> > >
> > >
> > > >I noticed on the web site that produce brought in from
> > > more than 100 miles
> > > > away or grown by someone other than the seller could
> > > be auctioned, but
> > > > must
> > > > be labelled non-local.
> > > >
> > > > Is it the experience of standing outside to shop for
> > > produce that intices
> > > > folks to buy non-local at a farmer's
> > > market/auction rather than just
> > > > buying
> > > > from the supermarket? Or is it that prices are lower
> > > or are assumed to be
> > > > lower?
> > > >
> > > > A few blocks from here a gentleman spends 6 days a
> > > week sitting in front
> > > > of
> > > > his garage selling produce, nuts, honey, etc.  Because
> > > of the
> > > > out-of-season
> > > > offerings, it's clear the stuff is not being grown
> > > locally (certainly not
> > > > in
> > > > his backyard).  I applaud his entreprenurial spirit
> > > and wish him well, but
> > > > I
> > > > wonder what makes people stop in for strawberries.
> > > >
> > > > Cathy
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Lynn Wigglesworth
> > > > <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> The difference between a produce auction and a
> > > Farmers' Market is that
> > > >> produce auctions usually allow produce from other
> > > areas or countries.
> > > >> Many
> > > >> Farmers' Markets today require the produce to
> > > be locally grown.
> > > >>
> > > >>
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