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  • From: Miranda Smith <Miranda.Smith AT creativehomeowner.com>
  • To: 'Market Farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: hoop houses in snow
  • Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:53:45 -0500


I've had the hoops on an unheated greenhouse bend under a heavy wet snow, so
I switched to buying those with a peaked roof line, not a regular quonset.
However, if you have heat in a quonset, you can melt enough off so the ribs
won't bend. (I've done this too.)

Miranda Smith

> ----------
> From: Hook Family
> Reply To: Market Farming
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 8:50 AM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: [market-farming] convenience
>
> This post brings up something I learned in a business (ag related) class I
> took last year. It is basically "the" thing I remember from the entire
> class our teacher said "be aware of what all the other retail outlets have
> *taught* your customer" The list of retail traditions our customers know
> is
> almost endless, for example, long hours, clean bright stores, lots of
> inventory, certain packaging, lots of convenience etc etc. The example
> our
> teacher gave: Our teacher is also a cut flower farmer and she discovered
> that if she put her flower bouquets into those cellophane sleeves they
> sold
> better, because visually thats what the customer expected probably
> subconsciously.
> Is there no hope in talking the modern consumer into buying and enjoying
> local farm produces of course not but we must be aware of what they
> already
> "know"
> When I start to feel a bit self-righteous I just need to look at my
> shopping
> habits I am no Thoreau living on Walden Pond :). Beth
>
> > Boy! I couldn't disagree more. I think under no circumstances should we
> > ever think that the farmer is more important than the customer! I
> don't
> > think any marketer even if he is a farmer will ever get very far with
> this
> > attitude. This amazes me. I think perhaps going this far puts the
> farmer
> > on a pedestal. To me the key to this whole farmers market thing is the
> > customer/farmer relationship. When a balance is struck between what the
> > consumer wants and what farmers can sustain we should be happy. Modern
> > grocery stores place the consumer over the producer. We should never
> allow
> > the farmers market to place the farmer over the consumer. I think that
> > would make us worse than them.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gary & Sarah Rowland" <hcf AT moment.net>
> > To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:43 PM
> > Subject: [market-farming] Re: peddlers, politics & convenience
> >
> >
> > > The convenience, serving the customer thinking leads to the everyday
> all
> > day
> > > farmers market where there are no farmers just peddlers. The farmers
> > market
> > > is for the convenience of the farmer. Short hours, once or purhaps
> twice
> > a
> > > week lend to the ideal of the customer getting there early to get the
> best
> > > freshest produce. The farmers market needs to be a special event,
> with
> > > customers coming because it is special.
> > > Gary---- Original Message -----
> > > From: Del Williams <delannw AT dlogue.net>
> > > To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 5:15 PM
> > > Subject: [market-farming] Re: peddlers, politics & convenience
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yeah, I keep wondering why we have a market from 7AM - 1PM on
> Saturdays.
> > > > WHO goes shopping at 7AM? (Mainly the retired and elderly). A lot
> of
> > > > people who work on Saturday aren't out before noon or even 5PM.
> > Families
> > > > don't usually show up until11AM.
> > > >
> > > > Del
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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  • hoop houses in snow, Miranda Smith, 02/13/2001

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