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  • From: "Elaine Granata" <elainegranata AT msn.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Lettuce price?
  • Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:21:20 -0000

Lynn: I know of a farmer who does an honor system farm stand at her farm -- she has a cash box at the stand and people help themselves and leave their money in the cash box. She has almost never been ripped off, as I recall.

Might that be an option for you?

Elaine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:58 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] Lettuce price?


What do you all get for mixed baby lettuce? I raise Johnny's Wildfire mix;
pretty red and green leaf lettuce. I cut it young, triple-wash and bag it in
1/2 lb. bags (that mix goes for $3.99/half-pound in the grocery store).

In the past, I've had an on-farm stand, but I'm a one-person operation and a
farm stand took too much time away from farming. I decided this year to try
selling through someone else's farm stand here that features 'local
produce'. She offered me $.50/bag for my baby lettuce (she sells it for
$1/bag...I was getting $2/bag 2 years ago). I also have early green beans
(probably the only local ones available this early...I start them in cell
packs and transplant under row covers), and she offered an insulting price
for those, too..

Our farmers' market in town has 2-3 vendors, and they mostly just sell stuff
to each other..some weeks they don't make the $5 vendor fee. I don't raise
enough to justify taking it 50+ miles to the nearest decent farmers' market.
Is selling in my own farm stand, at my own prices, spending more on
advertising than I make some weeks, the only answer? Sheesh...no wonder
farmers need day jobs!

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

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