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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Marketing
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:13:20 -0700


Good for you. Those resellers have the same stuff that's in the supermarket
chains, don't they? And don't have the vine ripened, tasty, nutritious
produce you do. I understand the controversy over resellers is a hot issue
in many markets and some simply ban them. I don't know your area but season
extention helps us here with a 90-day growing season for warm weather
items. My 15 x 30 greenhouse is a must for starter plants. We're not up to
trying Coleman's 4-season system yet but we do have greens started 4 months
before last frost here.

paul tradingpost AT gilanet.com
http://largocreekfarms.com
http://medicinehill.net

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On 2/11/2005 at 11:19 AM SaladG AT aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 2/11/05 9:50:09 AM Central Standard Time,
>limerock AT thirdplanet.net writes:
>
>> What really gets me as a roadside/farm marketer, are the 'deceivers'
>> selling produce from off-farm and calling it homegrown.
>
>Well these same people are in our farmers markets selling Tomatoes,
>Cantaloupe, watermelons and such a month or so ahead of any locally grown
>produce.
>These people are just plain peddlers and nothing else, I won't give them
>the
>honor of being called a marketer. They are just plain resellers.
>
>Our policy has never changed, if we don't grow it or make it we will not
>sell
>it.
>
>Farm Marketing east of Chicago is all together a different ball game. All

>you have to do is get on I 80 and head east and get to I 95 and start
>fighting
>the traffic. In the great plains we may have to travel 150 miles to get
>to a
>town of over 100,000 people. most of our rural towns are under 5000
>people,
>over half of the markets I sell in don't even speak English because of the

>packing House industry. Generally speaking we need our small town markets
>to keep
>our cash flow going. Our marketing schedule is everyday except Sunday,
>and
>some of the markets we do two or three the same day. Another factor is
>most of
>the small town markets don't open until Sweet Corn is on which is first
>part of
>July and runs till school starts the first of Sept. This gives us a very
>narrow window for sales in these markets so it is very important to get to
>as
>many Markets as possible. Lots of days we are doing two markets a day in
>this
>window and as far as 100 miles from home depending on the size of the
>community.
> We are luck to be in one big market that starts the first of May and runs

>til the middle of October, all the other big markets are fulll and we have
>been
>on their lists for years now, and I really have very little hope of ever
>getting in any of the three big market on Saturday.
>
>Phil
>
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