Market Farming

["William McKay" <bmckay55 AT hotmail.com>]

Jeanine

"I dont grow those potatoes" but my brother the organic grower does;  he has 
a small retail outlet at his farm and they do quite well there.Customers 
like them;  they are pretty hard to find anywhere, even in the high end 
stores like Bread & Circus.

By the way.  Jeanine, your marketing skills seem pretty sharp;  I suspect if 
you think it will work, that is because you have done your homework and it 
probably will work.

Also, for what it is worth, the state AG folks are pushing small scale local 
growers to get involved in the ethnic market which is poorly served.  They 
are recommending they focus on growing things preferred by the hispanic and 
asian communities (mostly laotians & cambodians around here), stuff like 
latin american squashes, puerto rican oregano (I think it is called), asian 
vegetables, etc.

Regards

Bill McKay in E. Massachusetts  and   www.growitalian.com    Distributor of 
Italian Vegetable Seeds from Franchi Sementi, spa, Bergamo, Italy.  Seedsmen 
since 1783.



I will stop rambling on now, and look forward to any response about my post, 
even if its just a quick, "I don't grow those potatoes."<BR>
> <BR>
> Thanks for reading,<BR>
> Jeanine Fore<BR>




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