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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:05:17 -0500
On Jan 17, 2011, at 3:54 PM, stonecirclefarm tds.net wrote:
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.
The $3 was a wholesale price. At market I sold them bunched, about 9 to a twistie, for 1.50 / bunch; not in a bag. The bunches weighed about 1/4 lb (though they weren't sold by weight, and weight varied a little); so that comes out to about $6 / lb retail. The wholesale price was based partly on the fact that they were taking a lot of them (and I had more than I could sell by the bunch at the higher price) and partly on the fact that I didn't have to bother bunching them.
I've sold more at retail every year, though the price has gone up every year; the first year nobody had heard of such a thing, and they had to be cheap to move at all.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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[Market-farming] garlic scape pricing,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 01/17/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing,
Road's End Farm, 01/17/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 01/17/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing, Road's End Farm, 01/17/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing,
stonecirclefarm tds.net, 01/17/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing, John Ehrlich, 01/17/2011
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- Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing, clearviewfarm, 01/17/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing, clearviewfarm, 01/17/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] garlic scape pricing,
Road's End Farm, 01/17/2011
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