Market Farming

[Beth Barber <rehobothhomestead AT yahoo.com>]

Sofco probably serves New Jersey.  800-836-7632 You
may even have a local store.  We are an area of 50,000
and have a store serving small restaurants, etc.  They
have a "farm market" catalog.  I get plastic bags,
absorbent pads for under chicken, etc from them. They
do a lot of orchard packing supplies. 

Wooden berry baskets 200/cs 117.33

Also probably not too far for you is Belle Terre in
central New York, 315-483-6155. 
Round wooden bushel basket 1.90
green fiber berry baskets quart 250/cs $20/cs

--- Scott Dixon <sdixon AT epicrx.com> wrote:
> We were able to get some bushel and 1/2 bushel
> baskets from our feed store, although the quality
> wasn't that great. I think they were running $3.00 a
> piece. If interested, maybe I can find out from him
> who he gets them from and you in turn can get
> someone up your way to stock them? I know he didn't
> buy 10000! There are only about 23,000 people in the
> entire county!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert schuler
> [mailto:sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:39 PM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: [Market-farming] Peach Baskets
> 
> I went to my local container supply to get quart
> baskets to display
> produce at my market, I put a plastic bag in each
> basket and fill it
> with whatever I got and put a one dollar price on
> it. "basket not
> included".   I asked for peach baskets, they told me
> that nobody is
> making them anymore. I always liked them for picking
> tomatoes, the newer
> plastic peach size picking baskets are too flexible
> and squish ripe
> fruit while lugging them down the rows. The
> companies have the tools to
> make them but you would have to order 10000 baskets
> to get them to make
> them again.   I will miss the old peach
> basket...Bob.
> Sunny Meadow Farm
> Bridgeton, NJ.
> 
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