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  • From: Roger Weeks <roger69 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: tomatoes
  • Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:28:22 -0800 (PST)

I'm sure it probably depends on your part of the country. I know food
prices in California sometimes don't bear any relationship to reality
in the rest of the country.

This year I sold my organic heirloom tomatoes for $2 a pound at the
farmer's market. I also sold them to restaurants for $24 a flat box -
one of those single-layer cardboard boxes that has a padded insert for
the tomatoes to sit on. The weight of these boxes varied, but was
always between 11 and 12.5 pounds - so I was getting pretty close to
the same price from the restaurants.

Before I started selling to restaurants I called several chefs and
asked what they were paying for heirlooms, and my cost was right in
line with what they could get from local distributors.

My advice is to find smaller restaurants - not necessarily the most
expensive places in the area, but ones that serve innovative food. You
can usually tell these places by their prices - $14-25 for entrees, and
much of the time they change their menu weekly. Go talk to the chef in
person.

Roger Weeks
Weeks Gardens
Sebastopol, CA

Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:30:55 -0500
From: "Tom at Limerock" <limerock AT thirdplanet.net>
Subject: [Market-farming] tomatoes
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>

Hello -- We would like to start selling tomatoes to local restaurants

next
year. What prices are y'all getting? Organic or not? Any info would
be
appreciated. Thanks.

Tom Anslow
Limerock Orchards and Roadside Market

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  • [Market-farming] Re: tomatoes, Roger Weeks, 12/08/2003

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