My yearly PYO plug

hank · June 23, 2015

Sometimes I wonder why there are not more 'pick your own' farms commenting here. Kikaida's recent posting about farm markets pushed me to start this thread. In this 5 mile area there are now 4 orchards, 2 berry farms, and 3 vegetable farms all PYO. PYO solves the problems of 'where is it grown', freshness, labor of harvesting, cost of transportation, and some costs of selling. Tomatoes and sweet corn are the latest items added by my son and myself. We are competitors. It has taken several years to develop the vegetable end, but together we should sell all we can grow on about 1 acre total of tomatoes. I have done the picking and delivering, and picking and setting up a stand. Marketing them as PYO makes me much happier. Hank

June 23, 2015	#1
hank Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: winchester va usa Posts: 106	My yearly PYO plug Sometimes I wonder why there are not more 'pick your own' farms commenting here. Kikaida's recent posting about farm markets pushed me to start this thread. In this 5 mile area there are now 4 orchards, 2 berry farms, and 3 vegetable farms all PYO. PYO solves the problems of 'where is it grown', freshness, labor of harvesting, cost of transportation, and some costs of selling. Tomatoes and sweet corn are the latest items added by my son and myself. We are competitors. It has taken several years to develop the vegetable end, but together we should sell all we can grow on about 1 acre total of tomatoes. I have done the picking and delivering, and picking and setting up a stand. Marketing them as PYO makes me much happier. Hank