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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Advice needed Pleeease !!! ASAP
  • Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:07:52 -0600

I think Pat's right. No guarantees but a promise to do as well as possible.
Grow what you know will produce well and you've had success with in the
past. Let them know up front so they can build menus around the crops and be
prepared to supplement what you can't provide.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
To: Margaret L Wilson <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>; Market Farming
<market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, March 19, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Advice needed Pleeease !!! ASAP


>On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:45:39 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>I am a long time gardener and I have a complete collection of tools and
equipment aquired over the yeeears in anticipation of getting a real farm
someday. I have a small Kubota with most of the attachments, rototiller,
scraper, brush hog.
>> What do you think? Should I jump in with both feet and go for it?? We
are looking at retirement but I am still being supported by a working
husband. SInce I am no longer working it would be so good to start making
some money
>
>When I make a decision, I like to think of it this way:
>What's the worst that can happen? Can I cope with the worst
>that can reasonably be expected to happen?
>
>OK, suppose you try it this summer and fail for some reason.
>
>What's the worst that can happen? It sounds as if losing
>one particular restaurant as a customer would be the worst
>reasonable consequence. Can you live with that?
>
>It doesn't sound as if you'd need to make serious
>investments of money.
>
>If you tried it this summer and thought you were a failure,
>would it ruin your self-confidence for trying it again? Or
>would you learn from mistakes, take it in stride, and go on
>to try again?
>
>Given the circumstances you describe, I'd tell the
>restaurant owner that - as this is the first summer I've
>done this - I couldn't *guarantee* any set amount of produce
>but that I would try hard to grow as much of what he wants
>as I can. And I'd go for it.
>
>Alternatively, a farmers market, or produce stand on your
>front lawn, might possibly be a less intimidating way to
>start.
>
>Pat
>--
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>supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
>live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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