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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 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
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[Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Beth Spaugh, 10/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Jay Sleichter, 10/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Bill Bradshaw, 10/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Barking Cat Farm, 10/14/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing, Road's End Farm, 10/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Barking Cat Farm, 10/14/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Bill Bradshaw, 10/14/2011
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
sunnfarm, 10/15/2011
- [Market-farming] Pricing and Chefs (was: sweet potato wholesale pricing), Richard Stewart, 10/15/2011
- [Market-farming] dealing with the brand loyalty, MAsteveINE, 10/15/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Rob Wallbridge, 10/16/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing, Jay Sleichter, 10/16/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] sweet potato wholesale pricing,
Jay Sleichter, 10/14/2011
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