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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Value added products
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:23:26 -0700


Are you the BriarPatch Farms that raises bloodhounds?

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

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On 2/11/2005 at 11:33 AM wizard1 AT kih.net wrote:

>Hmm The idea that farmers markets in rural areas arnt worthwile indicates
>an untapped market in a lot of areas. I notice that while rural areas
>offer the opertunity for people to grow thier own gardens that every rural
>comunity has I ever saw has grocery stores with produce sections
>therefore everyone isnt growing thier own produce.
> I will likely take a different stratagy to make rural farmers markets
>sucessful than in metropolitan areas but rural folks still want good food
>to eat and many rural folks work factory shift work and dont have time or
>energy to grow thier own food. I am looking at trying to establish a
>farmers market in my rural comunity this year as well as marketing eccess
>produce to the local grocery stores. I am convinces it is do able I just
>have to find the conbination.
>
>Mark
>
>BriarPatch Farms
>Monticello KY
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Old Timin'
> To: Market Farming
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Value added products
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> As far as the comment on rural farmers markets being a bad choice, I
>think the one thing left out of the equation is cost of living. I had read
>a few days ago that comparing sales for a given day between two vendors
>really tells you nothing, thier costs to produce those sales could be
>vastly different. I admit rural markets usually wont generate the big
>bucks that some big city markets will, but the cost of living in a rural
>area is much lower, and travel expenses and times to large cities from
>rural areas may not make up the difference in income for many marketers.
> Oldtimin
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