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  • From: "Natalie Foster" <sngarlic AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Garlic Scapes
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:30:15 -0400


I live in a state where even garlic is unusual so a few years ago when I
started marketing my scapes I really had to educate the people give them
plenty of recipes and make scape dip or scape pesto to sample. Now they sell
quickly and people talk about them ALL year waiting for them to be in
season. I sell them for $6.00 lbs. I put the curly ones out in a big bowl
and have a sign telling about them and saying they are $1.50 a bag and have
recipe sheets sitting by the bowl I have some bagged behind the counter so I
can keep the bowl full for the curious passer-bys . I bundle the straight
elephant scapes and sell them for $1.50 also. We now make hundreds of
dollars a year on scapes and if we do have a few left I dehydrate them and
sell them in jars as I do my garlic powder. A couple months ago I posted
about 30 recipes with scapes on this list.If anyone needs me to repost I
will. We grow 15 varieties of garlic and 12 of them produce scapes. This
year we had scapes from late April thru last week . This week I am
dehydrating the last scapes that were too dry to sell and will make powder
with them.
It is worth trying to sell them but you need to cook with them also so you
can share your experiences with your customers.
Natalie Foster
Cornerstone Garlic Farm
Farm Website
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&ext=1&groupid=140532&ck=
Natalie’s Blog
http://www.epicourier.com/Garliclady/
Natalie’s Cookbook
http://www.recipecircus.com/recipes/garliclady/

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  • Subject: Market-farming Digest, Vol 42, Issue 3
  • Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:00:14 -0400
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Today's Topics:

1. ps re shallots (road's end farm)
2. Re: ps re shallots (Lynn Wigglesworth)
3. Re: scapes was shallots (road's end farm)
4. Re: scapes was shallots (Lucy Goodman)
5. Re: scapes (Sue Wells)
6. Re: scapes was shallots (Sue Wells)
7. Re: marketing scapes (Sean Albiston)
8. one layer tomato boxes (Doerunfarmtn AT aol.com)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 23:08:51 -0400
From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
Subject: [Market-farming] ps re shallots
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Forgot to mention, but was reminded by just doing this -- to help
increase the size of shallot bulbs, pop the flower stalks off when
these appear; just like you would garlic scapes.

Unlike the garlic scapes, I don't try to sell these; they're not as
pretty as they have no curl in them, flavor is in my opinion not as
good, and I usually have as many scapes from the garlic as I can sell
anyway.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 07:36:47 -0400
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] ps re shallots
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From: "road's end farm" <organic101 AT linkny.com>
> Unlike the garlic scapes, I don't try to sell these; they're not as
> pretty as they have no curl in them, flavor is in my opinion not as
> good, and I usually have as many scapes from the garlic as I can sell
> anyway.

How do you market garlic scapes? I had them at market for 2 weeks, bagged
up in 1/4 bags, and spent a lot of time explaining what they were and how
to use them. Not one person bought any. Another vendor had them, also, and
no one bought hers, either.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Cowbridge Farm
Tioga County, PA


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:37:56 -0400
From: road's end farm <organic101 AT linkny.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] scapes was shallots
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>

> How do you market garlic scapes? I had them at market for 2 weeks,
> bagged
> up in 1/4 bags, and spent a lot of time explaining what they were and
> how
> to use them. Not one person bought any. Another vendor had them, also,
> and
> no one bought hers, either.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Cowbridge Farm
> Tioga County, PA

I bunch them, about 9 or 10 to a bunch, held with a twistie; currently
at a dollar a bunch. (Price has been gradually going up.) They might
show up better this way than in a bag?

When I first started bringing them, hardly anyone bought any. I still
have to explain them; but I'm selling more of them every year. I've
noticed this with a lot of unusual stuff. Customers who were brave and
tried something then talk their friends into it.

They're also what I call a "stopper": the customer stops at your stall,
if only to ask, "What on earth is that?" Once stopped, they may buy
something else; even if they don't buy the stopper.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:49:17 -0400
From: Lucy Goodman <goodows AT infinet.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] scapes was shallots
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I sell them in 1/2 pound bags for 42.50 a bag and I have recipes. The
one I used this year was for roasted garlic scapes. Without a simple
recipe they are about impossible to sell and only in the past 3 years
have I been really successful at my sales. I sold out this past
Saturday. People were grabbing 2 to 4 bags at a time, something that has
never happened to me before.

If you have a lot left over you can pickle them using any brine recipe
you like. They are wonderful pickled.

Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:00:21 -0400
From: "Sue Wells" <farmersue AT hughes.net>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] scapes
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Tell your customers that chopped up garlic scapes makes excellent garlic
butter.

Sue Wells



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:02:46 -0400
From: "Sue Wells" <farmersue AT hughes.net>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] scapes was shallots
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Would these garlic scapes be ok using a dilly beans recipe to pickle them
in?
Sue Wells




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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:19:02 -0500
From: Sean Albiston <lab AT physics.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] marketing scapes
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I would suggest that you band them at the base and set them out
unbagged. They don't dessicate easily6 and are more visually
appealing. I had a number of folks purchase bunches as table
centerpieces. I band 20-25 scapes @ $2. To save time, band them as
they are removed. In years past I have bagged them and they didn't sell
nearly as well. It is a great celery substitute in potato salad.

sean albiston

>
>How do you market garlic scapes? I had them at market for 2 weeks, bagged
>up in 1/4 bags, and spent a lot of time explaining what they were and how
>to use them. Not one person bought any. Another vendor had them, also, and
>no one bought hers, either.
>
>Lynn Wigglesworth
>
>



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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:52:13 EDT
From: Doerunfarmtn AT aol.com
Subject: [Market-farming] one layer tomato boxes
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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We are looking to buy one layer tomato boxes with lids sturdy enough to
stack. Does anyone know of a mfg. that we could contact? Thanks, Judy
McGary, Doe
Run Farm, Tn.
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