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  • From: Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] What are your best crops and/or products?
  • Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:49:17 -0600

We are having great success right now selling washed and packaged
(10oz) spinach to grocery stores. It sells slowly at farmers markets.
In just a week or two, we should start on asparagus, which does sell
real well at farmers markets. Later, blackberries, shelled southern
peas, tomatoes, green beans. I grow seedless watermelon specifically
for the late WIC market in August and September. I find seeded melons
to be low enough in value that they are hardly worth hauling around; we
get about 50% more for seedless. Cantaloupe also sells well to WICers.
Okra is a very long season crop for us, maybe June through October on a
single planting.

Jay Gee gives good advice on branding. I put my name on everything
that I can: spinach in printed plastic bags; okra, green beans, red
potatoes, and tomatoes in labeled mesh bags. I think the labeling is
worth while at farmers markets, but even more so at grocery stores. I
get about $1/lb for labeled green beans (retail $2-$2.50) which compete
well with Florida machined picked beans that may wholesale for less
than $.50 and retail for less than $1. Labeling small lots (1-3lb) is
far more effective than labeling a bulk packed box.

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ATTRA runs a list of farms looking for interns. I would
think getting on that would be a good step. There's a
useful booklet about farm interns, written by Doug
Jones, formerly of Bird's Foot Farm in upstate New
York. I'm not sure where you can get it, but if someone
is interested, I'll find out. I don't know if it covers interns
from overseas, but it does cover questions about
stipend and much else.
Pam Dawling, Twin Oaks, VA
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What is dry gas?
Bob

Would 'dry-gas' work as well as 190 proof?

Tom Anslow








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