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  • From: <pbunch@cox.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the learning curve
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 7:26:14 -0800

I was just thinking that sometimes our perceptions are affected by recent
events and longer term records might provide some guidance as time goes
along. I like your focus on quality and flavor, When you are working with
limited space it seems that "efficiency" also would be a high priority. There
are a lot of variables.

Once we get our soils up to snuff we will probably be selling some of our
produce. I have found this discussion very interesting.


---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
> No we don't. To me, growing conditions and methods have a lot more to do
> with yield than particular varieties, and all that varies from year to
> year. We don't keep exact records on variety sales any more since we can
> see what sells well, and that varies a lot from week to week. We do try to
> avoid crops that take a lot of space for the revenue they bring, like
> melons.
>
> Actually yield isn't our first priority but flavor and quality which keeps
> repeat customers coming back when there's a lot of competition (samples
> help), and one of our markets has 60-70 produce sellers competing. We
> usually price higher than some others but discount some for larger
> purchases or the disabled, which would skew sales records. Besides we stay
> busy enough selling and restocking the tables.
>
> The more important part is guessing how much of each type will sell over
> the season, and planting for continuous harvest the whole time. You don't
> want to have way more of one thing than you can sell in two weeks and then
> little or none of that the rest of the time.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
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> On 11/23/2010 at 7:50 AM pbunch@cox.net wrote:
>
> >Paul:
> >
> >Do you keep yield and sales records per variety?
> >
> >Phil Bunch
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