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- From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Peddlers at Markets
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:15:18 -0500
The term peddler is relative, because if the township set up a farmers market
down
the road from my roadside stand and you folks were to sell there I would call
you
guys the peddlers.
I wish I wish I wish there was a law only allowing you to sell only what you
grow
no more no less everywhere, but that's not the case and it probably would
threaten
our freedoms in other ways.
I sell alot of flowers on the weekends of Easter and Mothers day, I spend
months
working seven days a week caring for these plants I have to be here 24 hours
a day
maintaining my greenhouses but the pay off is the chance to make $10000 of
more on
each holiday, unfortunately everyone else knows it too and it seems that
every gas
station and parking lot has somebody peddling flowers, they get crappy stuff
that
is mass produced from Canada for less than I can grow it myself for but they
cannot get the quality of a home grown plant, sadly most buyers dont know the
difference.
We always have old folks who sell potatoes onions and crabs along the road
off the
back of their truck on pulloffs at the wildlife areas, they claim they can not
live on their savings so they indirectly take from mine and Im suppose to feel
sorry for them.
We had a young man loose his job and setup a roadside wagon full of home grown
produce on my road because his road was not bizzy enough, soon the lot was
filled
with produce boxes from out of state, so much for home grown, but he had to
support his family and I was supposed to feel sorry for him, again indirectly
his
family was supported out of my pocket.
Another problem home growers around here have to deal with are peddlers who
go to
the hundreds of local packing houses and buy seconds much of it they get for
free,
the local freezer plant gives away tons of stringbeans every day for cow feed
but
if you sort out the scrap you get alot of nice beans, the pickle plant
rejects all
cucumber size fruit, its alot easier than picking you own and peddlers resell
them on the roadside and at farmers markets probably YOURS, and you wonder how
they sell so cheep.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.
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Re: Peddlers at Markets
, (continued)
- 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
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Gary & Sarah Rowland, 02/11/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Wiediger, Alison, 02/12/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Alex McGregor, 02/12/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Robert Farr, 02/12/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, wiediger, 02/12/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Robert Farr, 02/13/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Wiediger, Alison, 02/13/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, robert schuler, 02/13/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Alex McGregor, 02/13/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Del Williams, 02/14/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Del Williams, 02/14/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, HackettShark, 02/14/2001
- Re: Peddlers at Markets, Bill Shoemaker, 02/14/2001
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