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  • From: growbd AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sour blueberries
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:09:12 -0400


I agree with Rivka.  Tell them--maybe even offer samples.  The relationship with your customers is way more important than what you sell this particular week and this is a great opportunity to show people that you can be trusted.  If this week's don't sell because of your honesty, try to find a couple of hours (I know!) to do some value-added thing with them, like jam or compote.

Good luck!

Deb
Sleepy Hollow NY


-----Original Message-----
From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 9:41 am
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] sour blueberries


On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Liz wrote:


<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param><smaller><x-tad-smaller>I
don't know if it's all the rain we've had & now the heat, but we have
loaded blueberry bushes--except the berries are mostly sour.  (The
ones I sold last week were sweeter.)  They've come in about a week
early so I'm not sure if later ones will sweeten up.  I should have
known something was up since there has been little bird & deer
damage.  I sold out of the berries by 8:00 last=2
0Saturday and they were
priced almost twice what others had theirs priced.  I don't get a
chance to scout the market before I'm inundated with customers & since
we don't have a permanent spot, we're one of the last produce people
allowed to set up before opening so we're usually scrambling to set up
while selling at the same time.  Now I'm afraid those customers who
bought last week will come back and buy these and they won't taste the
same.  Should I warn them to sweeten them up a bit??  It doesn't take
much and then the blueberry flavor really pops, but they don't taste
like that on their own.</x-tad-smaller></smaller></fontfamily></excerpt><excerpt>

 

</excerpt>

Yes, I would warn them. Explain that it's the weather (it probably is,
and customers will understand the weather as being something you can't
do anything about.) You might lose a few customers on the particular
day who won't buy them, but you'll gain more customers in the long
run: for one thing, they won't think your berries are always like
that; for another, they'll know you're honest, and that when you do
say something is sweet it actually is.




<smaller>-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

Fresh-market organic produce, small scale</smaller>=
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