Market Farming

[Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>]

On Jan 17, 2011, at 2:49 PM, stonecirclefarm tds.net wrote:

> I think this may have been discussed before but I am wondering how  
> people price garlic scapes...especially if you sell them by the  
> pound to restaurants.  I have a potential large volume buyer and  
> scapes are unlike most anything else I grow and sell seeing as how  
> they are sort of a "by-product" of growing garlic bulbs.  Thanks for  
> any insight and suggestions.
>
> -John

I sold wholesale scapes (not bunched; just packed loosely into a large  
vented plastic bag) for 3.00 a pound last year. The restaurant that  
took most of them was very happy to get them.

While they are a "by-product", they're highly useful; plus which it's  
a whole lot faster to snap them and leave them in the field than it is  
to carry them out of the field, pack them, refrigerate them, market  
them (including researching prices!), and take them to the customer.

What research I did gave highly varied results as to prices, though.  
I'm also curious to see what others got for these.


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