Market Farming

[Margaret <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>]

I am here in the NW also.   I have lived a lot of places but the economy is 
really in bad shape here.  I was just given 12 young laying hens and a 
lovely Holstein milk cow because the owners cannot buy feed for them.
 I have been lurking on this list while getting my ducks in a row.  I gave 
some extra beets to a neighbor and she mentioned them to a group of elderly 
ladies.  It appears that I may have created my own market.  The ladies are 
all vegetarians and would love to have fresh local produce.  I am looking 
at expanding my garden and doing a CSA type of marketing with them.  They 
are all on a fixed income.  Does anyone charge on a sliding scale?
They are part of a church that is vegetarian leaning so I think it could 
develop into a bigger group.

I do not think there is any kind of a CSA here so I would not be competing 
with some one who has to make a living by selling.  We have a very 
successful roadside stand that caters to tourists and the farmers markets 
30 miles away
TIA
Margaret SW Oregon.


At 04:43 PM 08/30/2003, you wrote:
> >Don't pity your customers.  I understand the not
> > wanting to gouge people or take advantage of them, but you have to make a
> > living.  Why not do it??  especially when you say "I probably could..."
> >
> > Liz Pike
> > Don't know what your economy is like...but here in the Northwest money
> has always been tight and these days I see all kinds of folk coming in
> to the market with scraped together change just to come up with a few
> bucks for bread and eggs.  Sure I have to make a living, and I'm just
> barely getting by, but in reality, I always have food and get to live in
> Paradise.
> I have some items I sell cheap, things that go to mostly locals.  I know
> I'm not making much on these things...but, in our tiny community...it has
> brought in a devoted following who in turn bring in all their friends and
> visiting relatives.  Items that are attractive to tourists...I price at
> normal US levels...these are the things that pay my bills.....
>                                       Sora at Paradise Valley Organics
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