Market Farming

["Gary & Sarah Rowland" <hcf AT moment.net>]

When we pick berries we pick straight into green plastic berry baskets in
cardboard flats.  We sell the berries in the baskets, most of our customers
return the baskets and we reuse the flats until they fall apart.  We find
berries deteriate more quickly the more they are handled.  That goes for
both strawberries and blackberries. By the way we get $4.00 pint for both
strawberries and blackberries.

Sarah Rowland
Hairston Creek Farm
Burnet Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai <potzkai AT hotmail.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: [market-farming] packaging soft fruit for market


> Hi, we learned a valuable lesson today in packaging.  My hubby had told me
> on wednesday that the strawberries appearance was not holding out.  We had
> them packed in cardboard pint and 1 1/2 quart sizes.  For today I packed
> them in large, small depth plastic containers and gave him the cardboard
> pints and quarts to put them into as required to keep the table full.
There
> appearance held out throughout our terrically hot day. Just thought I
would
> share a lesson well learned.  Jacqueline
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