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- From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:38:45 -0500
Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT gilanet.com>Be very careful handing out fliers for a farmers market at a grocery store. they tend to look at FM's as direct competition and have been known to call the cops on people doing this sort of activity. if you do this you will likely not get arrested but you will be escorted from the property and told never to hand out fliers again.
Hi Pat. Get more prospective growers together and >plan to have more to
sell, and have them plan ahead to >get together at the start of selling
season and hand out >flyers in front of grocery stores, advertising the
farmers >market with 10% discount coupons on the flyers.
Does anyone here use the book "The New Farmers' Market By Gibson, Rosenwieg, Corwin? It has a lot of great marketing ideas.
As far as attracting growers. The most effective way I have been recruited is from being called by the market manager. Fliers I generally look at and either misplace and forget or toss into recycling.
I would not worry about starting small as long as you have a couple of producers that have a good variety and are able to have supply all season. Find a meat vendor.
Get a food editor to do a couple of stories about your new market. This will be seen by a wide audience, including farmers. Make sure that the article makes it clear you need more farmers/vendors.
Lucy
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Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 36, Issue 44,
Velta Mack, 01/28/2006
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[Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Pat Meadows, 01/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Willie McKemie, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Tradingpost, 01/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Lucy Goodman, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lucy Goodman, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
TxBeeFarmer, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Brigette Leach, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Alliums, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Cherry Tree Farms, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Alliums, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Pat Meadows, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, Pat Meadows, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
TxBeeFarmer, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 01/29/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Lucy Goodman, 01/29/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem, TxBeeFarmer, 01/29/2006
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[Market-farming] Farmer's Market Problem,
Pat Meadows, 01/28/2006
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