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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Selling for other growers
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 06:55:25 -0500

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:55:13AM -0400, Lucy Goodman wrote:
>
> You are starting down a slippery slope
> because if you are reselling what's to stop
> others from doing the same? And what is to
> stop someone from buying non local food and
> selling at the market? Rules? if you have a
> no reselling rule and you break others will
> follow suit and go much farther than the
> local farm to get their produce, this is
> human nature. If you allow reselling expect
> it to be source from non local sources
> eventually. If you make the market a
> resellers market the customers lose out
> because they are expecting a farmers' market
> and you will have a farmerless market. Also
> resellers can sell all day if they have too
> and at lower prices than a true farmer

Well said! Thanks for making the case that seems so obvious to those
with farmers marketing experience.

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