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- From: Peter Worsley <pwors AT svn.net>
- To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Looking like a farmer.......
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:01:22 -0700
I went out and bought a green apron, to which I'll add an iron-on print
of my logo. Nice pockets for change, pencils, etc. Can't wait to use
it.- Peter
Liz Pike wrote:
>
> This came from another list. I've often wondered the same thing when
> observing the other vendors at our market. Most of the time you can't tell
> the vendor from the customers. I came up with a uniform of sorts that I
> wear each week, and the customers only have to look for it to know I'm
> there.
>
> "I'd been told by several people that it's good for sales at the Farmer's
> Market if you look like a farmer. Here in the Far West, nobody looks like a
> farmer. Everybody looks like a rancher, even if they're really a vegetable
> farmer or the governor of Oregon.
>
> So I went to the Farmers' Market last Saturday wearing a new pair of
> overalls and a straw hat. A little boy who had already walked the entire
> length of the market stopped at my booth and asked me, in tones of wonder,
> "Are you a FARMER?"
>
> So I think the advice is right. If you're at the Farmers' Market and are
> surrounded by produce, you don't look like a farmer, you look like a grocer.
> That's practically the same as being invisible. I think a farmer costume
> will pay for itself in no time."
>
> What do y'all think??
>
> Liz Pike
> Morningstar Gardens
> Pollocksville NC
> ICQ 46954468
>
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Re: Looking like a farmer.......,
Marie Kamphefner, 04/27/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Leigh Hauter, 04/27/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., robert schuler, 04/27/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Peter Worsley, 04/28/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., delannw, 04/28/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Jan Schmidt, 04/28/2000
- RE: Looking like a farmer......., Leslie Griffith, 04/28/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Betsy Levy, 04/28/2000
- RE: Looking like a farmer......., Ava Devenport, 04/28/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Peter Worsley, 04/28/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Vic & Pat Jackowsky, 04/28/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Modem, 04/29/2000
- Re: Looking like a farmer......., Don Bowen, 04/29/2000
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