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  • From: Catherine S <farmerwantabe AT hotmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Seeking to buy pecans and walnuts (at less than the price of gold)
  • Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:43:34 -0500

I would be interested also, I do alot of baking and have had to adjust prices of items to justify the cost of nuts and unfortunately it is effecting sales. Same requirements, unsalted and not roasted.
Catherine


 


> From: pat AT meadows.pair.com
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:54:31 -0400
> Subject: [Market-farming] Seeking to buy pecans and walnuts (at less than the price of gold)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Are there any pecan or (English, not black) walnut growers here? I'd like
> to buy approximately five to ten lbs. of each or either, RAW, UNSALTED -
> that's five to ten lbs, if shelled (I don't know what the unshelled
> equivalent would be). Either halves or pieces will do.
>
> I'd prefer shelled nuts, but will take unshelled (especially if we could
> save $$$ by shelling them ourselves).
>
> If we can reach agreement, I'd probably be a continuing customer.
>
> I used to buy them from BarryFarm.com or Bulkfoods.com but their prices
> have zoomed through the stratosphere, no doubt partly because of higher
> fuel prices, but maybe partly because of the bee problem (CCD). (I believe
> these nuts are insect-pollinated.) We just cannot afford those prices!
>
> If you sell them, please email me, including prices. I could mail a check
> or pay through PayPal (if you accept it). The nuts would be mailed to our
> home in Pennsylvania or sent via UPS or FedEx Ground.
>
> (To repeat: Only RAW and UNSALTED. Not roasted, not dry-roasted, no
> salt.)
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Pat Meadows
> -- northern Pennsylvania
> Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
>
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> supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
> live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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