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  • From: "Nora Owens" <noraowens AT comcast.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "'TxBeeFarmer'" <txbeefarmer AT gmail.com>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales (TxBeeFarmer
  • Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:26:59 -0400

Mark,

Here a couple of ideas: consider whether you have the capacity to sell CSA shares and whether you could get a core group of individuals and families to buy shares. Perhaps there are farmers market customers who’d be interested in signing on.

Another strategy may be to take your best produce to area restaurants, cafes and small groceries and offer samples. It’s important to remember that you will need to give them all a reason to care about what you are offering. It may be that you need to carve out a niche product or two, not more tomatoes or zucchini, but specialty peppers or baby eggplant (all just examples) or fresh salad mix at a time of year when it’s not available. See if you can set up meetings with the chefs or owners of these businesses and ask them what products they are interested in and whether you could grow it for them. You’d be surprised how often they are willing and interested in working with their area farmers. Keep your foot in the door and keep the conversation going. Also, you may end up needing many small accounts, farmers markets, roadside sales, etc. in order to make a go of it, at least to start.  Good luck!

 

Nora

Keets’ Croft

Western MA

 



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