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Jipus5 said:
Found out there is some farmer in Texas who delivers orders to a casino parking lot twice a week.... seeds, vegetables, tree saplings...  does this seem weird?  I have never done any of this since we dont usually have places around me that i know of that sell much... place outside of Coushatta has a GREAT spot they sell by the road OF their farm... but that's all I have seen.  Course i may not have looked hard enough.  Mostly it's just older men by their trucks full of stuff on the side of roads...
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I don't think it's weird he knows it Is a rural area. He can reach more people and sell his stuff with less overhead.He might even supply the casino some of his crops. In New Orleans when I was young they had produce trucks on corners in every neighbor hood.
 
foreverlearning said:
No, it doesn't sound weird. He had to ask permission to trade there and the casino sees it as possibly bringing some of those people in so they can make money too. It's a win-win. The farmer may not want people at his farm at all hours because of safety. It also creates a location that his customers can find him at certain times. We live in a strange world now with movie shootings and the knock out game, if I were to sell anything I know I wouldn't want people at my place that I didn't know. I have noticed in Texas that there aren't road side trucks like we have here, it makes me wonder if they have some sort of law against it.
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True.. I never noticed any either now that you mention it. I know 3 of the people myself, who are planning on meeting him Saturday...decent folk. One is getting Alfalfa hay from him. Said he has grandkids in the truck each time as well as his son... nice family thing i guess, and safer too...
May have to get some prices on things... only has whats in season, so probably not a Walmart reseller. Thanks!!
 
I sent the administrator a message to her FB. I asked where they buy from and where pick up and distribute their feed. I'm hoping we can join them they have 155 members so I would think it would be cheaper food if we join. We could shuttle our orders from there. I have a truck and trailer to pick up from them if they deliver to the coast. From there we could figure out a central place for pick up. I know we're far from making this happen. I just hope it really works out they call their co-op the feed train.-A Mississippi organic livestock feed co-op.
 
Ron Skekel said:
I don't think it's weird he knows it Is a rural area. He can reach more people and sell his stuff with less overhead.He might even supply the casino some of his crops. In New Orleans when I was young they had produce trucks on corners in every neighbor hood.
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Really wish we had more of this around here. Doug says, we should think about doing this ourselves... such a country area but a lot of people tho scattered, big home town buying practices. Actually, I believe he wants (ME) to be the one to do most of it. Which would be cool! Selling jam, berries, veges, my kind of life! I would have to start quilting again!
 
Well, my Pyrenees is howling on the back porch? He takes off when I open the door.... he has dropped the dead body of one of the stray dogs in the area on MY PORCH!!!! Excuse me while i go get him a chunk of roast....
OH AND IT IS SNOWING!!!
 
Jipus5 said:
May have to get some prices on things... only has whats in season, so probably not a Walmart reseller. Thanks!!
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You know a walmart seller most times. They will have a scale and sell everything by the pound, have items way out of season in large quantities (small batches could be a greenhouse), everything looks just too perfect, other farmers at the farmers market look at them in disgust, they know nothing about their crop, and if you do buy from them they just don't taste as good as other farmers stuff. At my farmers market the one that resells walmart stock gets shoved down to the end spot (in sun and rain) and every farmer there looks at them with the up most form of disgust. Ours has many people selling the same thing and even though there is a little competition for product, if you tell them what you are looking for they will cross sell booths. I have one farmer that I always go to his booth first (has best onions, tomatoes, and oranges) and because he knows me so well he will tell me what he thinks I should buy from other farmers based on what he has tried. He has never been wrong but he can get me to spend a pretty penny even if it is not from his booth. There is one lady that sells loaves of bread that he got me hooked on. She takes all the proceeds from her sales and puts them towards the seniors with the vouchers purchases so they can get more then the vouchers amount in fresh farmed food.
 
Jipus5 said:
Well, my Pyrenees is howling on the back porch? He takes off when I open the door.... he has dropped the dead body of one of the stray dogs in the area on MY PORCH!!!! Excuse me while i go get him a chunk of roast....
OH AND IT IS SNOWING!!!
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It was a gift! "See mommy, I'm doing my job!"
 

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