Market Farming

["stonecirclefarm tds.net" <stonecirclefarm AT tds.net>]

Thanks Rivka.  I have sold them for as much as $5/lb (although sales were mostly by the count, and, like yours, in a vented plastic bag).  I find them pretty easy to harvest and pack and feel they may actually be an important, contributing factor in making garlic a profitable crop on my farm.  The reason I am asking about pricing is that I have a potential large volume buyer (they plan to pickle them) and I am guessing they may ask me to drop my price.

-John

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

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



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