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  • From: "Gary & Sarah Rowland" <hcf AT moment.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: bulk source of plastic bags for salad greens
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:24:31 -0600

Tell the folks that want to bring in anything they haven't grown to go open up a store and compete with the other stores in town,   The only difference between store bought produce and peddler produce is that the store takes better care of their product.  Farmers markets are about fresh locally grown not some out of season imported product.  Those people only want you there to give legitamacey to their presence.  The out of state product will kill the market because the customer can get as good or better at the grocery store.  The market must be 100% vendor grown or you need to organise the farmers who agree with that and have a real farmers market seperate from the peddler bunch.  Peddlers definition of raising produce is loading it on the truck.  You don't want to be around those type of people because it will creat anger and bitterness listening to their lies.  I could go but I'll quite before I get excited.  I love people who come to market with the best they can produce and are proud of their labour.  Goodluck and fight for what's right.
Gary
Hairston Creek Farm
Burnet,Texas
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:36 PM
Subject: bulk source of plastic bags for salad greens

way back last year, there was a source for plastic bags for folks who were selling mesclun and other greens....i saved it, but a virus had wiped out my archives AND I could not locate the thread when going through the market farming archives (i used plastic bag, salad bags, as ways to search)
 
i could be doing the search wrong, but anyway, if anyone knows a good source for bags - not the ziplock kind, just ones you can close with a twistee (especially if it is the type of biodegradable "plastic" bags i saw in a salad video once) I would be appreciative.....
 
had our first meeting for a farmers market in our town....yipppee.  But then they started saying that growers could also buy from out of state and bring those veggies and fruits in as well and I stood up with an impassioned plea to make it strictly locally grown, but got voted down....HOWEVER, I am on the steering committee and may be able to be influential (and the two big guys who wanted to bring in extra tomatoes or whatever they don't grow may not show up.....)
 
i will go back and reread all the great stuff you all wrote from your own experiences in starting and maintaining farmers markets.  I also have extension folks in a neighboring county who have been part of a successful f.m. for 10 years and they agree, locally grown, with local grower selling ONLY.
 
maybe every group has to reinvent the wheel (hope not)
thanks, nan in n. mississippi
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