Posted by State of Jefferson on August 25, 2010 at 06:33:25 from (63.170.86.177):
So I moved to this nice little farming town here in Northern California a little shy of 2 years ago. One of the reasons I like it so well are that the people are so friendly. After pretty good success, and great feedback with a half acre market garden last summer, I decided I'd roll the dice, and make it a (mostly) full time venture, and went big. Planted 3 acres of mixed veggies; corn, spuds, melons, squash, etc. I attended the local farmers market every Tuesday, and then when production finally ramped up, I set up my little roadside stand, trying to peddle my goods 5 or 6 days a week. Things were going pretty well. Last Saturday was my best day of the season, about $180 in sales. Not gonna get rich, but a good reward for lots of hard work. I currently have a surplus of sweet corn, so I borrowed one of the neighbor kids to watch sales at my stand, while I attended the market to try to offload some extra corn. When I showed up at the market, the old, loud mouth PITA assistant market manager ran me off! He said that if I was going to sell at the farmers market, I couldn't have my roadside stand too. Said I was too much competition for the back-yard-hobby gardeners who were there selling there things! COMPETITION?! Isn't this still AMERICA!? Aren't we still a capitalist economy? This farmers market happens to be overseen by the county AG commissioner, to make sure no-one is just buying wholesale produce, and selling it as their own. I am going to go see him today and ask how in the he!! the old blow hard market manager thinks he can run me off for being TO GOOD OF A FARMER! I can't imagine they can exclude someone for being to ambitious. After this deal I don't even want to n]be a part of it, but then It would be fun to show up next week with 100 dozen ears of corn and sell it all for $.10 an ear so the other vendors have to take their extra goods home with them, and see how it feels. Anyone else have an experience like this? How did you handle it?
Sorry for the LONG rant. Some things just get under a guy's skin!
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