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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato harvesting ---price canners
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:04:39 -0400

What percentage discount do you put on canners?  I sell my drop dead gorgeous at $4/pound, slightly less beautiful for $3/pound.  $1/pound for really uglies that need to be trimmed almost doesn't sound like much of a discount, but I don't see going below $1/pound.  What do ya'll charge?
 
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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:36 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato harvesting questions

You could offer the ripe, less than perfect 'maters at a reduced price for canning.  Larger quantities, like 4 or 8 qt. baskets might be more appropriate in that case.

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com wrote:

From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato harvesting questions
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:13:58 -0400

I harvest most of mine when they first show color, put them in crates in an air conditioned room to ripen up for a few days and than sell them between orange ripe and deep red (as Lova has found, people don't always want dead ripe, must use it all today, maters). If I leave everything on until really ripe i risk losing a lot of fruit to insects and weather so I get them in to avoid such things and get a lot more perfect for sale fruits.





Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH



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