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["Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>]

We have tried both retail and wholesale with our fruits.  Set up a table 
beside the road before the local farmer's market opened.  Farmer's market 
was an enormous help.  Regularity is crucial even at the market, but we have 
been able to introduce people to hardy kiwi, and autumn olives, as well as 
native persimmons, pawpaws, Chinese melon tree and other unusual fruits thru 
the market.  It's the personal touch that is important, and we have little 
printed pieces of paper that tell how to use the unusual.
    We tried wholesale but don't reall produce enough to supply - and I 
especially enjoy the direct sale to consumers who will come back next week 
and tell me how good (usually!) the fruit was.
    Pick your own works well with blueberries for us, as the Amish come 
once a week during the peak season and finish off rows that you pick people 
only half finish.  We don't allow you pick on raspberries or blackberries 
because of potential damage to the plants from careless pickers.  We pick 
all the larger fruits.
   Hector Black, zone 6 middle TN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe and Ellen Hecksel" <jhecksel@voyager.net>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Selling fruit


> > That leaves wholesale. No
> > normal grocery store would want to deal with 85 kinds of apples...
>
> Cider?
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