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- From: mckemie AT inetport.com
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:47:50 -0600
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 08:09:00AM -0500, Dori Green wrote:
> The rule at our local market is that bona fide growers may also sell up to
> 50% from sources other than their own farm. This was established because
> we
> do know that there are weeks that a small grower might not be able to fill
> a
> stand with the bounty that customers are accustomed to see at a supermarket.
>
> My gripe with the market has been that the new managers ignore this simple
> rule by letting in the wholesalers who do not farm or garden at all. It
> would be bad enough if they were retailing for other local farms, but they
> bring peaches and watermelons from North Carolina in early July because the
> local farm/wholesale supplier they buy from has a large retail store and
> nursery center as well as a farm, and imports from all over the Atlantic
> region.
>
This is a fine example supporting my contention that any source of
produce rule other than "sell only what your grow" is un-enforceable.
And that un-enforeceable rules will be violated.
Who can judge that 50%? How can you be sure that the "wholesalers" are
not growing anything?
--
Onward! Through the Fog!
Willie
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown
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Re: Peddlers at Markets
, (continued)
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Sudoa Farm, 02/09/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, mckemie, 02/09/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Gary & Sarah Rowland, 02/09/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Jeffery Blake, 02/09/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Gary & Sarah Rowland, 02/09/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, mckemie, 02/09/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, OakCamp, 02/10/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Dori Green, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Del Williams, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Dori Green, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, mckemie, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Dori Green, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, S & S Aqua Farm, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Del Williams, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, S & S Aqua Farm, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, mckemie, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Del Williams, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Del Williams, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Jeffery Blake, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, mckemie, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Gary & Sarah Rowland, 02/11/2001
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