Tomato Market

Mechanics, pet groomers, personal shoppers, car washers—these are services. And there are no rules that say you can't turn your farm into a high-end product—a delivery CSA that comes with recipes and links to videos, packaged nicely?

Lay out the box vertically, decorative side down, and cut off exterior flaps and folds, so you have only the mirroring front and back pieces bound together by the base piece. With a permanent or white paint marker, write a month on each page between the...

(Some computers even come with movie software installed.) Slideshows are another effective way to share words and images from around the farm. A weekly reminder of your market schedule will suffice, and short updates about farm events can be fun for customers.

Rosemary, Tarragon and Thyme: Clip green shoots close to stems to stimulate new growth. Cutting midway up causes the partial leaves to wither. This trimming stimulates the plants to put out new growth, so before you know it, you can harvest again.

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The physical level and microbiological level can meet the export standards well.For avoiding fakes,this product already has normal enterprise NO: Q/KLE01-2005. It is enthanol-soluble and oil-soluble, but water-fast.The mixture of tomato color and oil...

However, because it is slow growing and disease prone as a microgreen, it is perhaps not a crop for micro beginners. Also, package it loosely in clamshells so you avoid damaging the tender greens.

Customers, consciously or not, like a nice package and nice display. Instead, how you present your items matters more. Make Your Products Visible One mistake I see a lot among farmers is keeping produce stacked in bins so it's hard for customers to see...

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Keep Quality High One thing I notice a lot in the fall is that sure, lots of people bring greens such as kale and collards, but lots of farmers also allow these items to sit on the table and wilt.

Because they store well (as long as you store them in a relatively cool, dark place that does not freeze) you can reasonably rely on having them as a item in the CSA throughout the colder season.

So the customers are rewarded at that price if they buy more items, but they have to pay a little extra just to buy one thing. It's simple and straightforward for customer and farmer alike.

Cucumber plants can produce a lot, so you might find yourself with a surplus. It is easy to get in a rhythm of simply selling them the way you always have, but if you need to move a lot of cucumbers, let's look at some alternative options.

It depends on your situation, location and clientele. Although many varieties of edible flowers exist, one of the best for new and beginning flower growers are nasturtiums. Do you sell them to a high-end restaurant in a big city, or a cute little bakery...

This will whet their appetites for garlic and increase their consumption over time. Literally hundreds of named garlic cultivars or strains exist. Most customers are accustomed to the lighter flavor of softneck garlic they have purchased from the grocery...

However, now that they've worked so hard on the land itself as well as building the business, there are risks with leasing. However, on a week-to-week basis, farmers market attendance can be unpredictable.

Three of the recipients of the 2017 Food and Beverage Awards, celebrating the best in new food products, were beverages featuring ginger. Tour guests also receive a discount coupon to linger and shop at the store.

Arugula can be a dependable seller at farmers markets, but other good outlets exist. In fact, you should always—except in cases of a bad crop or an experimental trial—make some amount of profit.

Hot food should be kept hot. This is pretty common sense, but on a hot day, a particularly cold day or an unexpectedly busy day, keeping up with the temperatures of your goods could fall by the wayside.

Nevertheless, it is a business. Loren Gifford Again, farming is a business. Where's the value in such an expenditure? In a world of social media, where photos are fleeting and disappear quickly into your feed, it's nice to have a way to reflect and see...

But still, play safe. The selling season for a single crop may span just a few short weeks; some sellers encompass the growing season and beyond by incorporating multiple products.

Karen Barnaby/Flickr Create a storefront on an established, plug-and-play platform like Etsy to learn the ropes of online selling. Most aspects of fiber processing require practice and skill to do well.

Use all of the information you gather to create your production and marketing strategy. Local farmers markets have become more than a quick stop for fresh foods: They are community events that welcome residents and encourage them to linger.

In fact, Oregon raw-milk producers got a boost early in 2014 when the Oregon Department of Agriculture agreed to not enforce a ban on raw-milk advertising. Get more help running your dairy operation from HobbyFarms.com: 9 Items You Need to Start a Goat...

You could plan for “Throwback Thursdays” with older pictures of yourselves or the farm. Don't know what to caption? Videos are not hard to make, and you do not need much equipment.

Greenbank Farm, a CSA and vineyard in the Pacific Northwest, hosts an annual poetry festival on the farm. But before the plants reached maturity, Pinto found they already produced many luscious berries and realized he had to do something with them.

As they contacted the 101 farms in their study area, they found it necessary to revise this definition to include farms that used different payment structures or schedules, growers that collaborated on multi-farm CSAs, and farm-linked aggregator CSAs,...