2016 Prices - Page 5

Urbanheirlooms · June 6, 2016

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Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Speaking of prices, I just agreed on 2.50/lb for my tomatoes with a higher end restaurant.
Thought that might be helpful to anyone trying to do wholesale to restaurants.
It is a beach resort area on a busy foot-traffic street.
I could live with 2$ so 2.50 is nice. I have heard of 3-6$ in some areas of the country, but I want to move product.
An established grower a bit south of me I talked to gets 2.

Looking forward to this week. We are actually supposed to get 5 straight days of sun!

Are your tomatoes heirloom or other? I am selling only heirlooms and wholesaling to a upscale farmers market. I am selling slicers for $2.50#, salads for $3.00# & cherries for $3.50#. He is selling them for $4.50#. I did find some Cherokee Purple & Black Krim tomatoes at a different local market for $1.99#. I asked where they came from and she said Florida (I am in Virginia). I bought a few and they had very little taste, but were very juicy-not the cardboard type.

PureHarvest · June 6, 2016

Heirloom and open pollinated types from Wild Boar Farms.

Just need to produce at this point. Everything else is worked out...other than getting boxes for packing/delivery. I'm leaning towards 10lb single layer boxes. How do you do it?

BigVanVader · June 6, 2016

Any of you guys know how much radish pods would sell for?

PureHarvest · June 6, 2016

No help here. That's a new one to me. I've never heard of that for sale in all my years. You are on the cutting edge so you might have to start the trend and set a price for others to follow.

Kazedwards · June 6, 2016

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Originally Posted by BigVanVader

Any of you guys know how much radish pods would sell for?

I saw one stand with them last Saturday. I didn't catch the price but I will look for them this Saturday.

-Zach

Urbanheirlooms · June 7, 2016

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Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Heirloom and open pollinated types from Wild Boar Farms.

Just need to produce at this point. Everything else is worked out...other than getting boxes for packing/delivery. I'm leaning towards 10lb single layer boxes. How do you do it?

10# boxes/single layer is the best way to do it. I get my boxes from a produce market and recycle them. I do not single layer them as the person I sell to just piles them in a basket anyway. I am careful not to put too many in one box though. I thought about buying boxes to pack them in, but it would drive my costs up quite a bit. Hard to purchase smaller quantities.

I am growing quite a few tomatoes from Wild Boar Farms myself:

Pink Boar
Cosmic Eclipse
Blue Cream Berries
Indigo Apple
Lucid Gem
Trenton's Tiger
Berkley Tie Die
Beauty King
Solar Flare
Indigo Blue Beauty

Restaurants love the appearance. Not all of these varieties have the best taste in my opinion though.

PureHarvest · June 7, 2016

Gotcha.

I am growing Dark Queen, Large Barred Boar, Black and Brown Boar, BTD, PBTD, Black Beauty, and Blue Chocolate.

Somehow we didn't overlap, lol.

So, do you weigh each box since they are all different amounts and then multiply by your price per pound?

Urbanheirlooms · June 8, 2016

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Originally Posted by PureHarvest

Gotcha.

I am growing Dark Queen, Large Barred Boar, Black and Brown Boar, BTD, PBTD, Black Beauty, and Blue Chocolate.

Somehow we didn't overlap, lol.

So, do you weigh each box since they are all different amounts and then multiply by your price per pound?

Last year, I used a small digital scale and put a small bin on it and zeroed it out. I would then fill the bin with tomatoes, get a weight and then put in boxes. I would keep up with the weight of each bin and total it up for a total weight.

With about four times more tomato plants this year, I have to take a different approach. I found an old postal scale on Craiglist ($25) which will weigh up to 60#. I plan on weighing the box first and then filling with tomatoes and subtracting the weight of the box:

berryman · June 8, 2016

BigVV,
I have some of those radish pods too and they are so great but for me, it doesn't seem like it could be worth picking to sell.
There are other small fruits like this; currants, gooseberries and rose hips (wild) come to mind. I would have to sell at something like 50$/lb to make money.

Do you have an idea of how much time it takes to pick those pods? Maybe my old fingers are just slow...

BigVanVader · June 8, 2016

I pick em as stalks and was going to try selling in bunches. I'm thinking 3$ per

Kazedwards · June 8, 2016

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Originally Posted by BigVanVader

I pick em as stalks and was going to try selling in bunches. I'm thinking 3$ per

That's what I saw last weekend. I want to say they were a $1 a bunch

-Zach

BigVanVader · June 8, 2016

Oh god not worth the bother at 1$. How big were the bunches?

berryman · June 8, 2016

Sounds like a good idea though; get the customer to do the work.

Kazedwards · June 9, 2016

Maybe 3-5 stalks.

-Zach

Kazedwards · June 11, 2016

Went to the river market again today. Tomatoes are still $3 a pound. Two people had them for 3.50. A small basket was $5 a piece for tomatoes. Small basket of blueberries were $7-8. No radish pods though this week.

The tomatoes were Big Dena. From a google search it's a commercial greenhouse variety.

-Zach

June 9, 2016	#74
Kazedwards Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 368	Maybe 3-5 stalks. -Zach __________________ -Zach

June 11, 2016	#75
Kazedwards Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 368	Went to the river market again today. Tomatoes are still $3 a pound. Two people had them for 3.50. A small basket was $5 a piece for tomatoes. Small basket of blueberries were $7-8. No radish pods though this week. The tomatoes were Big Dena. From a google search it's a commercial greenhouse variety. -Zach __________________ -Zach

June 6, 2016	#62
PureHarvest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b Posts: 1,369	Heirloom and open pollinated types from Wild Boar Farms. Just need to produce at this point. Everything else is worked out...other than getting boxes for packing/delivery. I'm leaning towards 10lb single layer boxes. How do you do it?

June 6, 2016	#63
BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	Any of you guys know how much radish pods would sell for?

June 7, 2016	#67
PureHarvest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b Posts: 1,369	Gotcha. I am growing Dark Queen, Large Barred Boar, Black and Brown Boar, BTD, PBTD, Black Beauty, and Blue Chocolate. Somehow we didn't overlap, lol. So, do you weigh each box since they are all different amounts and then multiply by your price per pound?

June 8, 2016	#69
berryman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: central utah Posts: 233	BigVV, I have some of those radish pods too and they are so great but for me, it doesn't seem like it could be worth picking to sell. There are other small fruits like this; currants, gooseberries and rose hips (wild) come to mind. I would have to sell at something like 50$/lb to make money. Do you have an idea of how much time it takes to pick those pods? Maybe my old fingers are just slow...