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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I just don't understand that.........Good tasty fresh food is so hard to 
find, it is just hard to imagine people not buying.  I believe you, but I 
don't understand..People spend extra for stupid things like clothes and 
electronics and games.....Food is one of the great joys of 
life.......................

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--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Land for homesteading
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:43 AM
> Actually the retirees don't buy much from me. It's
> the  professionals from 
> town...my best customer was the principal of one of the
> high schools. They 
> moved away, but came back to buy beef.
> 
> There aren't a lot of people here interested in local
> food, either buying or 
> selling. My Farmers' Market folded. I talked to the
> market manager of the 
> other one, and they didn't do very well last year. I
> get the same handful of 
> customers at my farmstand, but many of the
> 'regulars' buy beef in bulk.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "sjc" <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
> To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Land for homesteading
> 
> 
> > Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> >> Liberty is still mostly farmland. The center of
> the county had a real
> >> boom in the past 10 years. One McMansion across
> the street was built
> >> by a manager that was brought in to run a local
> company, but most are
> >> retired people. A LOT of well-to-do people from
> Philadelphia come here
> >> to to vacation every year, then retire here. A few
> live here year
> >> round, but many take long vacations south in the
> winter (own condos in
> >> Florida). This is definately an area of
> "haves" and "have nots".
> > I've often wondered about who you find to sell to,
> as when I was there
> > mostly looked like folks had their own.  Active
> farmers are a lousy
> > market.  Are these then your market for the truck
> patch?
> >
> > SJ
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