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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Managing lettuce (and veggie) glut
  • Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:39:07 -0400

Huh. I never thought of trying that with the sweet peppers, though I certainly do it with hots. I'll have to try it with the sweets this year and see what happens.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


On May 17, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Willie McKemie wrote:

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:32:17PM -0400, Road's End Farm wrote:

one bag. I sell lots of mixed-bag lettuce, but very little of the same
varieties as individual heads.

I've noticed a similar situation with bell peppers. If I allow
customers to pick their own peppers, they agonize over their
selections, tend to buy fewer, and not buy the colors I need to move.
I remove color and size decisions by putting them in mesh bags with a
nice selection of colors but distributed to use all available peppers.
The bagged peppers seem to sell in higher volume and I come closer to
getting rid of all my peppers. Not just large ones or ones of certain
colors. It seems that putting the colors together in a bag makes them
more attractive than stacks of peppers sorted by color.





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