A Colorful Market Table

[Cole_Robbie]

Today's market:
http://i.imgur.com/rhdJR0N.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ktiLQ7P.jpg

[Aerial]

Delicious looking maters!

[Urbanheirlooms]

Packaged and ready for tomorrow mornings market (this is about half of what I have to take).

[efisakov]

Beautiful!

[bower]

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.

[Cole_Robbie]

Thanks, Aerial.

Nice pic, Urbanheirlooms. I have to pack my large tomatoes in a single layer, or they end up getting squashed.

Originally Posted by bower

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.

Thanks, And yeah, those are 30-ounce plastic containers, but they look bigger than quart boxes. Sometimes I use quart boxes, too.

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.

[Aerial]

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).

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

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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.

[Cole_Robbie]

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%

[bower]

Cole, that is SO ROCK BOTTOM for the product you've got, and I'm you're not selling out. They look great, and I'm sure they are different from the norm...

So, what's the explanation for the Great Illinois Tomato Glut????

[AKmark]

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.

[Cole_Robbie]

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.

[Cole_Robbie]

Market this morning: http://i.imgur.com/pScGzKC.jpg

[Urbanheirlooms]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Market this morning: http://i.imgur.com/pScGzKC.jpg

Great looking table. I can't believe how cheap your tomatoes are.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Urbanheirlooms

Great looking table. I can't believe how cheap your tomatoes are.

This. ^ ^

[Urbanheirlooms]

Here was my setup this morning:

http://www.tomatoville.com/picture.p...pictureid=2348