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- From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] packaging
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:59:53 -0500
Your local chain super market should have "food and
bread bags" 10 x 14 "gallon size with ties 75 or 100 per box for less than
$2.00, Next stop, the front of the store, find the guy in charge at the
check-outs and buy a bundle or 2 of plastic shoping bags. seems like I was
paying $3.00 for a bundle of 100. Your local farm/feed store should have pint
and quart pulp berry boxes (by the piece) which are best for berries, but also
for other things grouped; (cherry tomatoes) lots
of folk will return these or even dump them into a plastic bag after selecting
the one they want. Staples or office depot for elastic bands by the
pound.
{{the more you can sell by the bag basket
bunch; the less time you spend at the scale, }}
[[Dont mess with any scale except a digital which
computes price, and also get a cash register that has at least 8 departments
(Sams club $120.00) you will be amazed what it tells you at the end of the
year}}((a 150 watt inverter will run them off your truck with no
problem))
Never pass by a chance to grab boxes, especailly if
you are doing some plants or seedlings. BITOA, the liquor store is the
gold mine, beer flats which ship 2 12 packs or 4 6 packs also fit perfectly 4
606packs of plants or 6 berry quarts, liquor cases are rugged and if you tape
the top and slice at the waist you get 2 for 1!
Lots of grapes are shipped in white styrofoam
boxes, let you local market
produce guysknow you can use them, they are
aces for hauling tomatoes and small squash, and as display trays white in much
cooler, the foam is sturdy and can be stacked way high in the truck without
crushing contents.
My neighbor had a 4" by 6" rubber stamp made with
his logo, farm name and address
and used it on both white and brown paper bags with
red ink pads which looked great.
Paid well for the stamp but avoided the cost of
custom printing for a huge number of bags he did not need.
This may all be the amature way of doing things but
till you are in a position to buy in huge lots at the market supply place it is
the cheap way.
(leave those plastic bag open, it only take a
minute or 2 in the sun to cook greens and what not.)
OMMV
MAsteveINE
This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for
which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise
to our maker and glory to his bounty by learning about... BEER." - Friar
Tuck
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[Market-farming] packaging,
Michael Franzese, 01/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] packaging, BarbaraJ, 01/22/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] packaging,
MAsteveINE, 01/22/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] packaging, Jay Sleichter, 01/23/2010
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