Market Farming

["Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>]

I grow the ProCut and Sunrich series. Sell for $1 each.  Another vendor sells for more, but she is fancy.  Early on plastic on 6” centers that is still $4/square foot so I think plenty profitable at that price.  Drilled late season, 36” between rows, probably have 8 to 12 per row foot, so still plenty profitable.  And SOOO easy to harvest and prep.  I walk down the row stripping leaves off stalks that have flowers at least ¼ open.  Then come back and cut the stripped stems. I generally cut with at least 30” stem, sometimes longer, but it is harder to transport that way.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

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"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

It's not that nice guys finish last. They have a whole different notion where the finish line is. - unkonown

 

 

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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wyatt Jones
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 9:27 AM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] selling cut sunflowers

 

They sell Sunflowers for $4 apiece, long stems, at the Farmers market in Yellow springs but that seems a bit high to me.  I would think it would depend on the size and type of sunflowers you are selling. 

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