In article >,
Barry > wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, yesterday at the Original Farmers Market in
> downtown Indianpolis, I paid $2.85 for a pint of cherry tomatoes, and
> $2 for four "burpless" cucumbers. How do those prices compare with
> your farmers market?
>
> Barry in Indy

Too early for cukes and tomatoes here, Barry. :-/ Typical prices for
produce right now at my local farmers markets (I have easy access to 3
each week, all part of the St. Paul Farmers Market system which requires
locally-grown products) are $2-4 for ~quart-size baskets (~5x8x3") of
stuff -- new potatoes, sugar snap peas. Green onions have been $1-2 for
a bunch of ~15.

I paid $4 new potatoes the first week I saw them; the following week
they were $3 - same for the peas (I snack on the peas). Good-sized
(IMO) plastic bags (like grocery store plastic shopping bags) of spinach
and leaf lettuces were $2 last week. One of those bags of spinach
steams down to enough for 2-3 people. And it's all mine! Large bunches
of radishes were $1. I didn't pay any attention to the prices on the
fresh herbs. Baby bok choy seemed reasonable.

When tomatoes come to market with a vengeance, I expect I'll pay about
$2 for a quart container. First offerings will be more expensive.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller - good news 4-6-2009
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
-Philo of Alexandria

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:50:43 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:05:46 -0500, Becca wrote:
>>
>>> When she is too busy to mess with
>>> it, she sells it to Marvin's Gardens, which is a farm stand that is
>>> located near me.
>>
>>> Becca
>>
>> cute name.
>
> I agree, I always thought Becca was a lovely name.
>
> nancy

<snort>

that, too.

your pal,
blake

"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Shawn Hirn" > wrote in message
>>
>> Is your "local farmer's market" really selling locally grown produce? I
>> seriously doubt it.
>
> Ours does. Most is fresh picked hours before they open. They are in or
> town twice a week and other towns another couple of days a week. Unless
> you produce the goods, you are not allowed to sell at the market. Some
> sell preserves, bread, and other home made items, all local. The CT Dept.
> of Agriculture sets up guidelines as to what constitutes local markets.

Ed, once produce is harvested and moved to another location it is no longer
local as far as farming is concerned... no local agriculture department can
certify where one head of lettuce was grown from another anymore than you
can tell if a banana was grown in Honduras of Costa Rica. Those little
labels don't grow on the bananas, they're affixed here in the US, even
Chiquita doesn't really know country of origin once they leave the numerous
plantations with whom they contract. I've seen the stupidmarket produce
employees affixing banana labels from a roll with a dispensor. A farmer's
market is not a farm stand. I can guarantee that very very little if any of
that produce was grown by the seller any more than stupidmarket produce is
produced by the seller. Sounds more like the CT Dept. of Agriculture is no
different an organization than the Maffia. Once produce is processed and
packaged, like apple sauce, there's a good chance of knowing because USDA
inspection is constant, but there is no way to know the origin of a fresh
apple unless you pick it off the tree yourself... even many orchards do the
co-op thing... even the beekeepers co-op, unless you go to their hive
operation you are probably buying a blend from various local beekeepers...
there are always exceptions, a few beekeepers won't co-op, but most do.
Farmer's market venders buy their wares from produce wholesalers... if you
want fresh picked from the farm you need to go to a farm stand... and even
then it is doubtful everything was harvested that day, they don't throw away
what doesn't sell that day. Where I worked there were 5,000 employeess,
once a week a farmer's market was permitted to set up in one of our many
huge parking lots so they could sell during the lunch hours... each
department took lunch at different times, even the same department had
staggered times so they didn't need to shut down (mot of out operation never
shut down), so the farmer's market was operational on site from about 10 AM
until 2 PM... this kind of farmer's market moved from location to location
on a steady basis, to sell at various large employer's facilities and even
in town municipal parking lots/park ball fields, etc. When a seller comes
to your location or is set up away from their farm it is not a farm stand
and there is no way to know where a farmer's market vender gets their wares.
Supposedly all the produce sold at the Farmer's market where I worked was
grown by legitimate farmers on Long Island, but who knows, coulda shipped in
tomatoes from Noo Joisey.

On Jun 24, 12:36*am, "Mr. Nonsense" > wrote:
> Why are farmers market always more expensive than the grocery store?
> I'm sure there must be good reasons for this. But I can think of three
> reasons why they should be cheaper:
>
> 1. They have no expensive advertising and marketing costs
>
> 2. They have no nationwide distribution costs, most of it is local.
>
> 3. They have no high overhead that is typical of large corporations.
> In other words they are not paying fat salaries/benefits to people to
> do monkey work.
>
> I could see they suffer from one disadvantage, no benefit from
> economies of scale. I think the key points listed above should more
> than make up for that.

Taste a farmers' market tomato. Taste a supermarket tomato. THAT'S
why.
Lynn in Fargo

"Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig" > wrote in message
...

Taste a farmers' market tomato. Taste a supermarket tomato. THAT'S
why.
Lynn in Fargo

And even better are the tomatoes you grow yourself.

Boob Twillytwillytwilly, suck your willy says:

> Sheldon blathered:
>
>> A farmer's market is not a farm stand. I can guarantee that very very
>> little if any of that produce was grown by the seller any more than
>> stupidmarket produce is produced by the seller.
>
> You can "guarantee" no such thing, you anile anus.
>
> Bob
Hiya Lin, how's your ****... you know, that fur faced baboon ****! LOL

Lin, baby.. while ya down there... keep sucking! LOL-LOL

Ahahahahahhahaahahahahahahaha. . . .

Sheldon ranted, but STILL couldn't get an erection:

>>> A farmer's market is not a farm stand. I can guarantee that very very
>>> little if any of that produce was grown by the seller any more than
>>> stupidmarket produce is produced by the seller.
>>
>> You can "guarantee" no such thing, you anile anus.
>>
> Hiya Lin, how's your ****... you know, that fur faced baboon ****! LOL
>
> Lin, baby.. while ya down there... keep sucking! LOL-LOL
>
> Ahahahahahhahaahahahahahahaha. . . .


....which is your way of saying I caught you in ANOTHER lie, and you have no
rebuttal whatsoever, so you resort to the stupidity you posted above. The
more perverted your rantings, the more I hurt your feelings. You must be
STINGING! (And of course that only makes you MORE impotent. Fact is, you
haven't had a really *good* orgasm since the last time your mother let you
whack off while you licked up the sloppy seconds.)

Hey, did you consider that if you died TODAY, it would take months before
anybody noticed you were gone? They're too preoccupied with Farrah and
Michael.

Bob

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:06:23 -0500, Andy > wrote:

>Barry said...
>
>> $2 for four "burpless" cucumbers.
>
>GREAT price! Lucky BUM!!!
>
>I haven't had seedless cukes in awhile. Now I'll have to go and inspect.
>
>Back at ya... do you peel the rind off? That also reduces burps.
>

"Burpless" ain't "Seedless." These had plenty of seeds. Burpee (no pun
intended) sells about a dozen varieties of burpless cukes, which are
not necessarily seedless. Here in Indianapolis, those long seedless
cukes, usually from Canada, sell for about $2 each.

Barry in Indy

Barry said...

> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:06:23 -0500, Andy > wrote:
>
>>Barry said...
>>
>>> $2 for four "burpless" cucumbers.
>>
>>GREAT price! Lucky BUM!!!
>>
>>I haven't had seedless cukes in awhile. Now I'll have to go and inspect.
>>
>>Back at ya... do you peel the rind off? That also reduces burps.
>>
>
> "Burpless" ain't "Seedless." These had plenty of seeds. Burpee (no pun
> intended) sells about a dozen varieties of burpless cukes, which are
> not necessarily seedless. Here in Indianapolis, those long seedless
> cukes, usually from Canada, sell for about $2 each.
>
> Barry in Indy


I just know them as "English" cucumbers. Minuscule seeds. Right, they are
the long slim kind.

Andy

Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> Sheldon blathered:
>
>> A farmer's market is not a farm stand. I can guarantee that very very
>> little if any of that produce was grown by the seller any more than
>> stupidmarket produce is produced by the seller.
>
> You can "guarantee" no such thing, you anile anus.
>
> Bob

Exactly, we have lots of small local farms and we have farmers markets
(the one on the city square opened last night). Folks who own and run
the farms are called farmers. They take the produce and fruit they grow
and often baked goods the family makes and display and sell them in
their spot in the farmers market. My uncle used to own of of the larger
farms and his son and wife now operate it.

When your only point of reference is either sitting home or the super
wally you can't possibly have a clue what the real world is about.

brooklyn1 wrote:
> Boob Twillytwillytwilly, suck your willy says:
>
>> Sheldon blathered:
>>
>>> A farmer's market is not a farm stand. I can guarantee that very very
>>> little if any of that produce was grown by the seller any more than
>>> stupidmarket produce is produced by the seller.
>> You can "guarantee" no such thing, you anile anus.
>>
>> Bob
> Hiya Lin, how's your ****... you know, that fur faced baboon ****! LOL
>
> Lin, baby.. while ya down there... keep sucking! LOL-LOL
>
> Ahahahahahhahaahahahahahahaha. . . .
>
>
Here is a little experiment for your big giant brain. Print out what you
wrote and hand it to someone you don't know and ask for a candid opinion
about the writer. You will clearly be shocked because the words class
(maybe proceeded by "lack of") and normal will not be used.

Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> D. Arlington replied to Lynne:
>
>> Taste a farmers' market tomato. Taste a supermarket tomato. THAT'S
>> why.
>>
>> And even better are the tomatoes you grow yourself.
>
> Sadly, that's not always the case. I tried growing tomatoes last year,
> and they were pretty bad. The skins were so tough I could have cut them
> into strips and flossed with them. It's probably the brutal summer heat
> here.
>
> Bob

Tomatoes need just the right conditions. We had a very low yield last
year and many were just crappy or rotted easily. Nearby there are also a
number of tomato farms. I drive by one frequently. They sell at a stand
by the barn and at the farmer's market and had few tomatoes to offer.

Who knows about this year. We had a sting of cool and rainy nights. It
is almost July and I just spotted one tiny tomato and only two other
plants have even flowered.

George said...

> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>> Sheldon blathered:
>>
>>> A farmer's market is not a farm stand. I can guarantee that very very
>>> little if any of that produce was grown by the seller any more than
>>> stupidmarket produce is produced by the seller.
>>
>> You can "guarantee" no such thing, you anile anus.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Exactly, we have lots of small local farms and we have farmers markets
> (the one on the city square opened last night). Folks who own and run
> the farms are called farmers. They take the produce and fruit they grow
> and often baked goods the family makes and display and sell them in
> their spot in the farmers market. My uncle used to own of of the larger
> farms and his son and wife now operate it.
>
> When your only point of reference is either sitting home or the super
> wally you can't possibly have a clue what the real world is about.


The largest farmer's market near me http://www.linvilla.com/ Linvilla
orchards, Media, PA is where I go for "pick your own" of their crops.

It's fun getting lost in the corn! Requires a good sense of direction or a
compass.

The store in front, for those who just want to buy stuff, has a bakery and
the "cream of the crops". And the freshest murky apple cider that just
can't be beat!!!

Andy

http://alturl.com/zhjm

My field of dreams.

Andy

"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
>
if you
> want fresh picked from the farm you need to go to a farm stand... and even
> then it is doubtful everything was harvested that day, they don't throw
> away what doesn't sell that day. Where I worked there were 5,000
> employeess, once a week a farmer's market was permitted to set up in one
> of our many huge parking lots so they could sell during the lunch hours...
> each department took lunch at different times, even the same department
> had staggered times so they didn't need to shut down (mot of out operation
> never shut down), so the farmer's market was operational on site from
> about 10 AM until 2 PM... this kind of farmer's market moved from location
> to location on a steady basis, to sell at various large employer's
> facilities and even in town municipal parking lots/park ball fields, etc.
> When a seller comes to your location or is set up away from their farm it
> is not a farm stand and there is no way to know where a farmer's market
> vender gets their wares. Supposedly all the produce sold at the Farmer's
> market where I worked was grown by legitimate farmers on Long Island, but
> who knows, coulda shipped in tomatoes from Noo Joisey.

I'm sure there are many farmer's markets as you describe, but I'm speaking
of the one here in town that is open twice a week. There are only about a
dozen vendors and each one has a farm. Many also operate farm stands on
their own also and I've been to some of them. Each has a specialty. Frank
has plants and herbs and the best tomatoes, Wayne has all organic and has a
variety of onions, potatoes, garlic, snap peas and greens. Rachel has
berries, etc.