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- From: "TxBeeFarmer" <txbeefarmer AT gmail.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:45:50 -0500
Hope some of you can share your wisdom and tricks of the trade
with me.
I have a wonderful five acre garden and my 40' cooler is
overflowing with fresh produce.
My problem is sales, or should I say lack of
sales. Oh sure, there's the Farmers' Market and a few people who want
some things delivered, but I need real sales!
I've contacted every restaurant, cafe, grocery store, and
health food store in my county as well as surrounding
counties with no luck.
The problem with selling to restaurants and cafes seems to be
the large food distributers - they deal in huge quantities, have a large
selection, deliver in refrigerated trucks, and are very cheap.
None of the eateries around here gives a flip about being local or
fresh or anything else. They just want it cheap, delivered, and already
cut up and bagged.
Grocery stores want me to have huge amounts of insurance and
be preapproved by their corporate headquarters. This is also the case
with chain restaurants.
Obviously, I'm doing something very wrong here. I
just can't sell what I grow.
Sure could use a little help.
Thanks,
Mark
The Coldiron Farm (West Texas)
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[Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
TxBeeFarmer, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, William H Shoemaker, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, E C GRANATA, 08/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
Brigette Leach, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Laurie Allen, 08/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
Jay Sleichter, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Sweet Valley Organics, 08/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales,
Richard Robinson, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Road's End Farm, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Pamela Crowe, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Richard Stewart, 08/19/2010
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