Market Farming

["Margaret L Wilson" <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>]

I think you have the good sites pretty much covered on your web site.  I need to get back to work on my web site as soon as I can sit at the computer more.  Yours is very good!!  Did you do it or have it professionally done?

 

First let me apologize for not thanking you sooner for the advise you gave me concerning how to find a USDA approved packer a few weeks/months back.  I finally managed to trace one down in Douglas County, near Roseburg, OR.  I was pleasantly surprised to find they don't charge much more than regular "for own use" processing.  They are about a 100 miles away but it is mostly freeway.

 

It definitely puts a new angle on my decision to stay or try to find someone to help or to rent the farm.  My sheep and cows are a lot less hands on, hard work than the produce side. Grass fed, heritage breeds make it easier too.

Margaret 

----- Original Message -----

From: Alderspring

To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: January 11, 2005 6:47 PM

Subject: [Market-farming] good sites for direct marketers

Hello to the list.

 

I'm looking for good links on direct marketing to add to our producer's resources section of our web page.

 

We direct market grass fed beef.  We've had some good success (160 head in 2004 and on track for 200 in 2005).  We have received a bit of press and have started getting phone calls from people who are interested in what we do.  To help them, I put together an annotated list of sites from my favorites.  I'd like to add more.  Does anyone have some good sites they would like to recommended on direct marketing (not necessarily grass fed).  While links specific to marketing meat products are great, general direct marketing links are also useful.  You can access the list of links I already have at "producers resources" from the home page:

www.alderspring.com

 

Thanks!

Caryl Elzinga

Alderspring Ranch Grass Fed Beef