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  • From: "Kate Halstead" <rockyprairie AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Selling Live plants at a Farm Market
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:24:38 -0800

Alison,

Any possibility you have a picture to post of the market table you speak of?
Sound pretty ingenious.

Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wiediger,
Alison
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 10:28 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Selling Live plants at a Farm Market

I guess I want to add to this discussion that all of our vegetable and herb
transplants are in 1801 cells (3.5 inch pots). We sell them singly for a
good reason. Vegetable transplants sell for $1.50 each, times 18 in a flat,
$24.00. If we were selling six packs for even $2.00 (and at our market they
usually sell for 1.50) times 6 in a flat, $12.00.
Double the money for the space used in the greenhouse, in transport, etc and
not much more cost. And, most of our backyard growers don't want 6 of any
one variety, they want 1 or 2 of several different varieties.
And, if folks bring us the pots back, we recycle them until they fall apart.
They fit in a standard 1020 flat, and we display them in that flat on a
custom built table that Paul designed that holds 18 flats at a nice slant
plus pots across a top member above. It knocks down flat and goes up in
about 3 minutes.

Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm


-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Andrew R.
King
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:34 PM
To: 'Market Farming'
Subject: [Market-farming] Selling Live plants at a Farm Market

I was wondering if anyone in the group sold plants at their farmers market.
If you do, what do you start from seed and which plants are started from
plugs you buy?
Any pointer on how to transport plants to market?

Andy King
Sunflower King's Farm
PA Zone 6



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