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  • From: Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm <rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:35:53 -0400

Title: Karen Sutherland
Thanks, Maury.  We've been considering high tunnel/hoophouse investment.  As most everything has to be imported, prices are very high and we would be buying at US $, but earning EC $ (1 US = 2.7 EC).  And we would need to develop storage/source of water (which we have to do anyway) as right now all we have is the rain.  No well digging on island, even if our mountainside location had a vein to tap.  (Wish we had dowsers on island!) 

I can imagine having "permanent" structures that we could then change cover from rain shield to shade cloth to bird net to nothing depending on what was planted at the time.  Has anyone seen designs for such that would make cover changing relatively easy on both people and the cover material?

All best wishes,

Karen

Karen Sutherland

Roots Farm

Organic Produce

Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs

Cockrane, Dominica

767-449-3038

rootsfarm AT marpin.dm

rootsfarm AT protoscape.com

 

 

 



maury sheets wrote:
Karen,

With prices like that for broccoli, you should grow it in high tunnels with
no sides to avoid the rain problems.  They do that here in New Jersey with
Raspberries because of the rain shorting the shelf life and also to extend
the season. It is something to look into.  Good luck.

Maury



Woodland Produce- Fairton, New Jersey
Hydroponically producing sustainable salad greens in the Northeast.

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Karen
Sutherland and Roots Farm
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:29 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop

The leaves are great steamed, cooked with rice, in soups, etc. but  
also are good raw in salad.  I'd bet a wilted salad of the leaves  
would be very nice, but haven't tried.  A Chinese restaurant here  
buys them in quantity -- I 've been meaning to ask how they use them.

Broccoli is rare & expensive here.  We are able to sell our organic  
heads for $8.50/lb (supermarket importing and selling at $12+/lb.)   
Sounds like a lot, but so many broccoli plantings fail due to too  
much rain when heads maturing.  At least now we can sell the leaves!

Best wishes,

Karen


Karen Sutherland and Roots Farm
Organic Produce
Cockrane, Dominica
rootsfarm AT marpin.dm
rootsfarm AT protoscape.com



On Jul 22, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Willie McKemie wrote:

  
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 09:06:33AM -0400, Karen Sutherland & Roots  
Farm wrote:
    
As we clean our harvested broccoli heads and side shoots for  
market, we
remove a lot of younger broccoli leaves.  This year we started  
selling
them at $3 for a 12 oz bag.  Everyone who has tried them has come  
back
      
Intriguing!  Thanks for the idea!

What is done with them?  Steamed like cooked broccoli?  Raw as a salad
ingredient?  Both?  Other?

We have traditionally sold broccoli heads and shoots in 1lb bags for
$2.  Last year, I decided that that wasn't profitable and cut back to
8/10 lb in spite of perceived pressure from cheap grocery store
broccoli.  This year, I just quit picking it because it was very low
profit compared to other things I could put my labor in.  Due to
requests, I started picking it again and charging $3 per 8/10lb bag.
And, it has sold very well.  That seems profitable so I'm planning a
late summer - fall crop.  The cool wet summer here in central Texas
has kept broccoli going far later in the season than "normal".

-- 
Willie, ONWARD!  Through the fog!
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