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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:25:55 -0400

I would like to hear what folks are selling sweet potatoes for in bulk or wholesale.  I have two kinds of requests – large orders of pretty ones for resale, and restaurants willing to trim off the mouse chewed areas.

 

I was so heartened a month ago to see sweet potatoes priced at $1.29/lb in the grocery store, but when I checked today they were down to 74 cents/lb.  When I checked the AMS marketing service for wholesale prices a month ago, it was $1/lb.

 

I’ve been charging $2/lb at markets, and did so all last fall.  Others were charging as much as $4/lb, but they have a cult following who don’t question anything.

 

And I am incredibly happily energized – our market tomorrow just got cancelled because of high winds and rain (and high of 50).  I wasn’t looking forward to it at all.  Next week we move inside until Christmas. But, oh, it is exciting to have a “free” day.  A chance to catch up on lots of indoor (including hoophouse) things. Smile, smile, smile.  The money from sales would have been nice, but it is an hour drive each way, and I’m not sure how many sales we would have had.

 

 

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

http://rhomestead.com      http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead

 

"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

 

 

 




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