Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[<pbunch@cox.net>]

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:
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> >Paul:
> >
> >Do you keep yield and sales records per variety? 
> >
> >Phil Bunch
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