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- From: Jay Sleichter <jaysleichter AT yahoo.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
As I read about many of your operations and customers, it makes me feel smaller and smaller. Sometimes I wonder if other feel this way too? All that aside, I only sell at Farmers Markets. Last year it was 3, this year I was forced down to 2 because I was selling so much at my Wednesday market it didn't leave anything for my Thursday market, so I quit going. Last year I sold tomatoes to a local grocery store because I had more than I could sell. I am going to start up a CSA with LocallyGrown.net, but it isn't ready yet. I am a one man operation, I get family help but they are really too young harvest. They are great for marketing. People always ask were my kids are if they aren't with me at the market. Due to crop failures, bugs, weather and the economy, I have produced less, sold it for less and the strange thing is I have made more than ever before and I still have two months of Farmers Markets and a winter CSA. Marketing at Farmers Markets is probably the easiest and hardest places to sell. The easiest because for some/most markets you can just show up and pay any fees and start to sell. The hardest because it is hard to establish markets (customers), low ball pricing and the weather. Mark, have you tried other Farmers Markets? My problem with marketing and starting a small CSA is this. If I sell too much produce through the CSA, it doesn't give me enough to sell at the Farmers Market. Does anyone have this same problem. I know that either way I still sell the produce. But I don't want to just sit at the Farmers Market with empty tables. Wonderful discussions! Jay Jay's Jellies, Produce and More Clay Center, Kansas www.jaysjellies.com http://highfarming.blogspot.com/ --- On Thu, 8/19/10, Brigette Leach <afhg AT ctsmail.net> wrote:
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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
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, Marcy, 08/20/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, SaladG, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, clearviewfarm, 08/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, SaladG, 08/20/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Need Help with Sales, clearviewfarm, 08/20/2010
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