Market Farming

[Vern and Amy <vaspencer AT sisna.com>]

I asked my local supermarket manager if we could put a box in the 
entrance to his store for recycled cartons.  He suggested instead that I 
buy new ones from him at his cost of $20 for 250.  (One size only.)  He 
even offered to drop them by the farm on his way home from work!  (He is 
a new neighbor I took a gift of eggs to last year.)  They come from his 
factory farm supplier with his store name already on them so he can 
repackage eggs that are in a carton with a damaged egg. 

According to state regs, we obliterate info from a previous seller 
(except safe handling instructions) with our own label, anyway.  Most 
people like that we reuse (clean) cartons--it's more ecofriendly and 
"farmy" than ones that don't seem to be re-used.

The manager didn't want to clutter up his storefront, and I realized 
that other people may get all the cartons or that I might get too many 
to deal with.  If we took the box away, people would be bummed when they 
went to the store expecting to drop off cartons, and have to take them 
home again.  When Farmer's Market starts up in May, people will bring 
cartons to us there anyway.


Vern
Vern's Veggies and More!