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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 Roots Farm Organic
Produce Fruits,
Roots, Vegetables & Herbs 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 backIntriguing! 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! http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 Debian3.1/GNU/Linux system uptime 48 days 11 hours 40 minutes _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming_______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming |
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[Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm, 07/22/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
Willie McKemie, 07/22/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
Karen Sutherland and Roots Farm, 07/22/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
maury sheets, 07/23/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop, Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm, 07/23/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
maury sheets, 07/23/2007
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[Market-farming] "organic",
Allan Balliett, 07/23/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] "organic", Kate Halstead, 07/23/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic",
Nett Riherd, 07/24/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations,
road's end farm, 07/24/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations,
sals, 07/24/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations,
Sharon and Steve, 07/24/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations, Home Grown Kansas!, 07/24/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations, Pat Meadows, 07/25/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations, Fellenz, 07/25/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations, sals, 07/25/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations,
Sharon and Steve, 07/24/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations,
sals, 07/24/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] "organic": actual USDA regulations,
road's end farm, 07/24/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
Karen Sutherland and Roots Farm, 07/22/2007
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Re: [Market-farming] Broccoli leaves -- new crop,
Willie McKemie, 07/22/2007
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