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  • From: "Rainbow's End Farms & Orchards" <rainbowsend AT swva.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] fall crop questions
  • Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:11:00 -0800

Stuart is 25 mile north of Mt. Airy, NC at the
base of the BlueRidge Parkway. I'm thinking of an
18 to 19 week season. Yes, we are launching a CSA.
Eight vegetables sounds reasonable. I have read of
others in other parts of the US that offer up to
20..many of which are exotics or oriental
vegetables. Somehow I just can't see the folks
here buying Bok Choy. Even offering winter squash
led to many asking "whut kinda gord eus thayut?"
And, for those who think farming can't be
profitable...
Horizon Organic hits 22 percent sales increase for
quarter...
Nov. 5, 2002, just-food.com: The $47.6 million in
sales in the third quarter for Horizon Organic
Holding, which handles the leading brand of
organic food in the U.S., is a 22 percent jump
from its $39.0 million a year ago.Income from
continuing operations rose to $2.2 million for the
first nine months of 2002, up from $404,000 a year
ago. The results are in line with the company's
predictions that it would post gains of 16 to 20
percent increase in sales.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Hauter" <lh AT pressroom.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: RE: [Market-farming] fall crop questions


Where is Stuart, VA? Are you in the valley? I'm
just outside of DC
and our last killing frost is usually mid to early
April.
Do you mean shares as in a CSA? if so...
Our season runs less than 20 weeks and we try to
offer at least 8
different vegetables each week. I wish I could
say how much of each
to plant but it's gotten to be like my wife's
cooking. Some of this
and some of that and somehow it works out right.
>From experience, I
guess I know what to expect from each crop and
about how much of each
vegetable per week people are happy with. Maybe I
should write that
down in case my son ever wanted to take over. I
have lists on our
webpage of what vegetables people got each week
for the past several
years.
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