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- From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why do it
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:04:27 -0500
From: "Russell Bryant" <bovagard AT msn.com>
>You think like a farmer. You need passion for farming price your stuff as
if itt is you or the other guy. My wife just read >Gottcha Capatilism The
banks rental card copanies phone co all rip us off legally and get away
wit it . We are selling eggs >for three dollars /doz and people pay it.
goo food is worth moer.
>Russ
How do you convince people to pay more? When I raised my free-range egg
price to $1.50/dz, several of my long-time customers decided they cost too
much (other farmers in the area still sold them for $1.25/dz). I can
charge a premium for my pasture-raised beef...people seem to understand
the value of that, but not local eggs or veggies.
When I sold at the
Farmers' Market, most people came looking for good deals...if we charged
even the same as the supermarket, people wouldn't buy. I often brought
home more produce than I sold.
In another sad twist, I told my egg story
to the head of the local organization who SPONSORED the Farmers'
Market...he said that he paid $2.50/dz for brown eggs (not even organic or
free-range) at the
supermarket...it never occurred to him to go to the Farmers' Market or
otherwise shop locally...and this was the markets' sponsor! He never did
show up at the Farmers' Market; as
far as I know, he still buys his eggs (brought in from somewhere else) at
the supermarket. Sigh.
Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA
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[Market-farming] Why do it,
Christian, 03/20/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Sharon and Steve, 03/20/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, John Ferree, 03/20/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Beth Spaugh, 03/20/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Glen Eco Farm, 03/20/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 03/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Brett Olson, 03/26/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Lynn Wigglesworth, 03/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Russell Bryant, 03/26/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Lynn Wigglesworth, 03/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Brett Olson, 03/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 03/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Pat Meadows, 03/21/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Wiediger, Alison, 03/21/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, E C GRANATA, 03/22/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/21/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, BCLuton, 03/20/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, Liz Pike, 03/21/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, cjmaness AT juno.com, 03/21/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it, sora, 03/21/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it,
Debbie Moore, 03/27/2008
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