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  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] In praise of Raspberries
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:12:29 -0400


On Jul 16, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Spidra Webster wrote:


On Jul 16, 2006, at 6:06 AM, road's end farm wrote:

You've never picked them in commercial quantities, I assume. Much of the cost is in the picking.

They need to be picked every couple of days; even if the weather is so wet that the berries are already moldy and will just need to be tossed; otherwise the moldy ones may infect the others. They need to be marketed with similar frequency, since they don't store for very long. So they're actually pretty time consuming for the grower. For the home gardener, of course, picking them is part of the pleasure; so the time spent is rarely noted.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

Interesting.  BHG's Country Gardens magazine recently had a focus on a couple who started a U-pick raspberry operation.  Given what you've told us, that makes a lot of sense.  You're "hiring" pickers, yet making money for it!


Although, you probably need to go out and pick in lousy weather, to avoid building up too much mold.  But yes, they are a good PYO crop.  Most of the PYO places I've been to have some.

Ginda



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