Market Farming

[Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:13:31 -0500, you wrote:

>I'm told if sell produce at the Farmers' Market by weight, we must use a
>certified scale.  Was then told we could avoid the high cost of certified
>scales if we sold by the basket, bunch, bushel, each, etc....  This works
>for melons, okra, peas, and the like, but how do you sell things like
>squash, since they're all different sizes.
>

I'd do it like this:  (this is just an example - the prices
are not necessarily realistic).  

I'd separate them into two piles.  Large ones and small
ones.  50 cents/each for small ones.  $1.00 each for large
ones.

Some choices will be arbitrary, of course.

Pat


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