Sharing Your Crops

[schmism]

funny you say that about the cukes....

we have one TINNY row of cukes no more than 8' long that has kept us buried in cukes!

my green beans got ate early just as they were starting to produce and died so im on my second planting and my pole beans i planted with the first are takeing FOREVER to come in for some reason

 

[Groo]

Ma n' Pa used to sell some of it at a farmers market, but it it just wasn't worth it. they were making less than minimum wage selling the produce just sitting behind the table, not counting growing and harvesting. My aunt and Uncle help out in the garden plenty, so do some other friends. there are usualy enough people to dump the produce on from the helpers and close friends, what little is left, turns into deer bait when the fence is opened up in the fall.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I sell a few buckets a week of squash and green beans to local restaurants. The other day a man and woman down the road stopped by and asked about working in the yard for work because they were out of work for now. They both gave me a list of jobs they couldnt do and I didnt have anything for them. I told them I had plenty of vegetables and they told me where they lived. I went down there with a 5 gallon buket of squash and one of zuccini and a buccket of okra and one of green beans. and a few cuccumber. I told them Id be back in a few days to get my buckets and about a week later I passed by and saw my buckets out by the road. I stopped and went to pick them up. They still full of allthe veggies on in a rotted state. the folks came out and told me they didnt want to snap the beans or cut okra and so forth but they would take cxash donations and gift cards. I had to leave I felt my face the red hot.

 

[Bird]

told me they didnt want to snap the beans or cut okra and so forth but they would take cxash donations and gift cards

Yep, I've met a few folks like that. Fortunately, they're in the minority. Or at least I hope they are.

 

[scott_vt]

I never found a market for selling much to the local stores and I had no desire to sit out in the heat all day as a vendor at the farmers market, so we gave it away. We had neighbors that we invited to come pick their own and I also picked a lot that we took to other people..

Good Evenin Bird,
Quite often in our area of Vt and also many locations of upstate Ny just across the border farmers have roadside stands. They list all the prices of their produce and your on the honor system to pay for what you take ! I love that system and Kathleen and I allways leave a bit extra whenever we get some fresh veggies, its kind of a time gone by, but its reminescent of the way things used to be all over !

Unfortunately if we did that where I am in Ct you would be broke pretty quick !

 

[Bird]

Scotty, we also had one place like that about 2 miles from our place. Of course he was on a farm-to-market paved road. Even so, I don't think there was enough traffic for him to sell much. But we were on a county road. The pavement ended just past our driveway and even the pavement in front of our house was not wide enough for two vehicles to meet and pass without one or both getting off in the grass. Our newspaper carrier and our mail carrier turned around in our driveway, and on many days that was the only vehicles we saw. There were only 2 other homes for which the owners might have passed by our house, but they could come in from the other direction and usually did. Then in the early spring, the road just past our house was usually closed anyway due to flooding. If we'd been on a road with any traffic, I'd have fixed up a roadside stand myself.