Produce Marketing
The truth is you don't make any money growing vegetables. To make money you have to sell the vegetables. At least 80% of a commercial aquaponic farm business has basically nothing to do with aquaponics. So instead of talking about commercial aquaponics, I want this group to be about selling produce.
Farm Marketing Living Produce
I'm looking for ideas here and I may come up with a few to share.
Biggest issue I see at the moment is how the heck to haul living produce to market and keep it looking marketable during transport and on the market tables.
Needing to keep the labor reasonable but also need to haul enough produce to market and be able to set up in a reasonable time without rendering the product unmarketable.
Goal, to get enough product to market to make it profitable to pay the booth fee, travel costs, person tending the market booth, and production costs of the produce AND have a little profit left over.
Sonja Martin Young
Jan 4, 2014
TCLynx
What would you want to do differently with year round Produce? You can make a schedule (Quarterly, every 6 months or full year) and advertize and price based on what you can provide for that time period for subscriptions.
Or some people sell through "online" markets.
Jan 9, 2014
Candis Kalley
WHEN we get big enough, hopefully in a year or so, I want to try to go the FARM SHARE route - something like a CSA but with the FARM SHARE, individuals "buy" a share of the farm membership for X number of weeks. Here in SW FL thinking of a membership of $50 or so for Jan. 2 thru Apr. 30 with weekly 10 to 15 produce/fruit item boxes for $25 BUT with the farm share, members would also be able to buy the fish PLUS we have chickens, ducks, turkeys, sheep and goats. Sheep and goat milk would be available along with butters and cheeses and their meats! There could also be a door to door system with the farm share!
Sep 24, 2014