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- From: SaladG AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [Market-farming] Resellers at markets
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:08:23 EST
Joe we are lucky here in Iowa because very few markets allow resellers to
bring in out of season products but that said we are getting a lot of pressure
to do more markets than we can get picked for. Some of these market
managers are just trying to fill spots at the markets so it will probably start
to get worst here in the midwest. Our main market they come to the farm
and inspect about every other year and we have over 150 vendors so that in
itself could be daunting to management to check out all these farms. We
used to have a couple of guy's that bought most of their products but after a
few years, they finally figured it out that they were not making enough money to
hang it all together, then next thing that happened to them was getting sold out
by their bankers, so they are no longer around.
Our market management manages a Sunday market as well and they want as many
of us as they can get for that market as well. When you pick a couple days
to put produce in the cooler to get through your Saturday morning market,
get home at 3:00 and then pick for a market the next day. Not going to
happen at our age. It does work to refill the freezer and sell meat on
Sunday.
Our policy has always been if we don't grow it, make it(handwover rugs), or
raised it we will not sell it.
Phil from Iowa
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[Market-farming] Resellers at markets,
SaladG, 12/29/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Resellers at markets,
Jay Sleichter, 12/29/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Resellers at markets, Barking Cat Farm, 12/30/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Resellers at markets, SaladG, 12/30/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Resellers at markets, Debbie Moore, 12/31/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Resellers at markets,
Jay Sleichter, 12/29/2010
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