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Post by DiggingDogFarm on Aug 11, 2011 0:35:23 GMT -5
I never sell by the pound. On top of having your scale certified, the scale becomes a choke point at busy moments when there are multiple customers and transactions occuring. I feel it is better to use unit pricing for everything so you can move the transactions along faster to keep the people who are waiting from giving up and moving on to another vendor. IMO you make more money on the folks that don't walk away in frustration than you lose by getting every last cent out of each ounce of produce. YMMV Makes perfect sense!!! |
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Post by Darth Slater on Aug 11, 2011 8:38:09 GMT -5
I always sell to resteraunts directly, never waste time at the farmers markets where Red tomatoes are the norm, my customers buy from me because i offer other than the norm produce.
I am currently getting 5-6 dollars a lb for tomatoes.
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Post by grunt on Aug 11, 2011 9:01:38 GMT -5
Darth:at that rate I give away about $15.000 worth of tomatoes a year.
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Post by Darth Slater on Aug 11, 2011 9:05:24 GMT -5
Hey Grunt, heres an idea! Send em to me and we will have some change for Christmas!!
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Post by grunt on Aug 11, 2011 11:09:44 GMT -5
You pay the postage, and I'll start mailing
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 11, 2011 15:10:56 GMT -5
Dan, This week I sent tomatoes to Montana, cost about $15.00. I had postage shock. Darth, After I was done with my picking for the CSA, my son picked tomatoes and sold them to a local market for $1.50 a pound. Without hardly working he sold 19 pounds. I told him if he drove up to Berkeley, he could sell them for $5.00 a pound. There have been no tomatoes coming out of the north. It's been foggy every morning and down into the 50's at night. August 1 was Lamas, after which the corn grows as fast at night as in the day, but I think mine is putting on sweaters and trying to keep warm. Our farmer's market last week was hopping. I went to score garlic for planting. Attachments:
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Post by steev on Aug 11, 2011 15:25:24 GMT -5
Lovely tomatoes; mine are still green and not even big enough to slice for frying. What are those purple ones?
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 11, 2011 18:49:57 GMT -5
Black Cherry. The red are Isis Candy and the Golds are Sungolds.
These are the 3 that my CSA selected, every year.
If you take 3 more voles, I'll send you some tomatoes.
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Post by steev on Aug 11, 2011 20:28:54 GMT -5
I wouldn't take any more voles for their weight in gold; maybe for my weight, but I'd have to grease 'em, to squeeze them in on the farm.
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