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Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Delicious looking maters!
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Packaged and ready for tomorrow mornings market (this is about half of what I have to take).
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Beautiful!
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Cole Robbie, is that a 'saladette mix' you're selling, like the mixed cherries? I mean as a mixed pint or set weight. I like that idea, wondered how it's working out. They all look great btw, lovely table.
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Thanks, Aerial.
Nice pic, Urbanheirlooms. I have to pack my large tomatoes in a single layer, or they end up getting squashed. Quote:
There's such a glut of tomatoes right now, I have to do everything I can to have a product that looks different. My mixed pints are $2 and the quarts are $3, which is ridiculously cheap, but I'm still not selling out. |
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Geez, that's a crazy GOOD price for almost organically grown heirloom tomatoes! And you always grow awesome varieties. Those shoppers in IL have it so good they don't even know!
DH paid $8 for two medium size heirloom tomatoes at the farmer's market, and didn't even finish them (said they weren't very good which I agreed). Last edited by Aerial; July 22, 2016 at 03:09 PM. |
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#203 |
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When I get to the point of having tomatoes by the truckload, I should drive the truck to California to sell them. I'd make three times the money.
It sounds like DH paid $4 a pound. By contrast, in late summer at the produce auctions in Amish country near me, prices bottom out at around 10-15 cents a pound. So if I buy here and sell there, my gross profit is 4,000% ![]() |
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Cole, that is SO ROCK BOTTOM for the product you've got, and I'm
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If Cole and Urbanheirlooms brought those beautiful tomatoes to AK they could get 7.00 bucks a pound in Anchorage, they would be mobbed. Very nice assortments, great job putting those displays together too, super impressive pics.
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Wow. Thanks, both of you.
I just happen to live in a great climate to grow late summer tomatoes. Southern Illinois has a history of being an agricultural land of plenty. I've seen 80 acre fields here in commercial tomato production. Red Gold tomato products is in neighboring Indiana, not too far away. |
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#207 |
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Market this morning: http://i.imgur.com/pScGzKC.jpg
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