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  • From: michelle rome <michelleann7 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] ladypeas pricing?
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:40:52 -0700 (PDT)


Pam, Rivka, Others
I did not grow lady peas this year. But in previous years I sold them by the pound. Not usually enough to sell by the bushel. 1/2 bushel or peck. They should bring the same price as butter beans or butter peas by the peck or half bushel (my opinion)- they are a high end southern pea (and ole timey).
Some of the eastern indians love them and some ot the asian might also with the spanish. Although small they shell out well and pass the time if sitting at the market selling other items - try selling by the pint for $3.00 to $3,50 or $1.25 to $1.75 per pound unshelled.
To try to get them going - try talking to folks to try 2 to 3 lbs. They will catch on. They have a beanny flavor more than a southern cowpea. Again your best market may be the foreign market for those up north (hint).
 
Regards
Michelle
Romy Farms
E&W SC
 

 
On Sep 23, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Pamela Crowe wrote:

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

Now I actually have some to harvest! I'm not sure if I'm going to get enough this year to take to market (they may just go to the one friend/customer I planted them for, who is very pleased to have them); but in case I do get lots, it occurs to me that I have no idea how to price them. They look like they would take forever to shell out any amount; I'd be selling them in the pods.

I don't know about pricing, but you might ask around about access to a pea sheller. I found that the University Extension Service owned one in the next county and have taken peas, lima beans, butter beans, etc. over and helped run them through. The cost is minimal and it pretty much ensures that you can sell these kinds of produce once grown. I sell the shelled beans/peas by the pound------$4.50-$5.50 per pound.
 
Pam
SC

I know where there is a pea sheller (one of the Mennonite farms around here has one, which gets used by anyone in the neighborhood who has lots of peas for a minimal cost per bushel); but a) I'm not likely to have enough to make it worth driving over there and b) I don't know whether it would work on these; they're tiny, and the pods are much thinner than the pods of anything I've ever seen put through a pea sheller.

It might be worth giving a few to another market vendor who's used the sheller, though; he might know (for another year) whether it would shell these.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




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