Aquaponics Digest - Sun 12/05/99
Message 1: Big customer commitments
from Jim Sealy Jr
Message 2: Re: Big customer commitments
from William Evans
Message 3: Re: Big customer commitments
from Dave Miller
Message 4: Seed Supplier
from Dave Miller
Message 5: Re: Aloha
from "Wendy Nagurny"
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Subject: Big customer commitments
From: Jim Sealy Jr
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:53:26 -0600
I had the buyer for a major white tablecloth restaurant up by the
airport in Memphis contact me about fresh baby salad greens. Says he can
use 80 cases each weekend, but wants me to be able to compete with his
price he's getting on greens shipped next day air from Calif. now.
Question is what kind of commitment do you think I should push for from
his end if I gear up for a new customer on this scale, and at reduced
margins to boot.
Jim Sealy Jr.
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Subject: Re: Big customer commitments
From: William Evans
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 19:12:24 -0800
Jim Sealy Jr wrote:
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> I had the buyer for a major white tablecloth restaurant up by the
> airport in Memphis contact me about fresh baby salad greens. Says he can
> use 80 cases each weekend, but wants me to be able to compete with his
> price he's getting on greens shipped next day air
Why should your product be compared pricewise?, its prolly much
fresher, tho I would think that the farawawy grower should have enuf
price built into his product due to the long distance freight charges ,
to keep you competitive- tho I could be mistaken if it's a large
operation w/ high efficiency
bill evans.
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Subject: Re: Big customer commitments
From: Dave Miller
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:35:09 -0500
Jim,
I would stress that you can offer him variety and color and a fresher
shelf life at his/her end. Discuss reusable cases or other returnable
boxes to minimize packaging. Discuss who will wash the greens (Will you
pre-rinse)? Offer to customize and diversify the mix by season or crop
as you feel fit.
Sell the sizzle and worry less about the price - stress that you are
offering a wholesome product with a better fresher flavor. Are you
organic? Is the Calif supplier?
If you are going to take this business on, do you need to purchase
equipment? How prepared are you with start up needs. If you need to
shall out money, get a firm written contract for enough time to recoop
extra expenses.
Would it than be worth finding other smaller restaurants that would want
you to supply them. I mean that if you are going to jump in, why not
jump in heartily and take on more to offset the possible newer expenses
AND bring your margin up?
Just my thoughts.
Dave
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Subject: Seed Supplier
From: Dave Miller
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 23:01:20 -0500
Non-vegetarian, but sell organic foods. Expensive.
Evergreen Y.H. Enterprises, P.O. Box 17538, Anaheim, CA 92817
A great source for exotic seeds. Have a catalog. Some of the seeds
offered are:
Amaranth, Asparagys Bean, Bitter Gourd, Bunching Onion,
Burdock, Catabash,
Carrot, Celetuce, Chinese Cabbage, Chinese Celery, Chinese
Kale, Chinese Leek,
Coriander, Garland Chrysanthemum, Green Bean, Hon-Tsai-Tai,
Kohlrabi,
Komatsuma, Large Wax Gourd, Lettuce, Luffa, Mint, Mitsuba,
Oriental Basil,
Oriental Cucumber, Oriental Eggplant, Oriental Mustard,
Oriental Radish,
Perilla, Small Wax Gourd, Snow Peas, Spinach, Turnip, Yo Choy,
etc.
Anyone tried this company? Other suggestions?
Dave
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Subject: Re: Aloha
From: "Wendy Nagurny"
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:03:24 -0500
I hear copper is
>lethal to them too, so installing barriers around your beds should take
>care of them unless they fly.
I am not an expert on slug/snail anatomy, but the copper deterrent thing was
explained to me like this: When the slug's slime comes in contact with
copper, a chemical in the slim interacts with the copper and forms a low
voltage battery. There are two sense organs of some kind on the slug's
underside; one near the head end and the other near the tail end. When the
slime/copper battery is connected between these two sense organs, it annoys
the bejeebers out of the slug so it avoids the copper barrier. The copper
barrier must be wide enough so that nearly the slugs whole body must be on
it for the copper barrier to work. A slug will just crawl over a thin wire.
Copper foil nailed to a wide surface of a 1X2 is usually sufficient unless
you have some real big 'uns.
I have some slug problems in my hostas. I have thought about covering some
1X2's with copper foil and tooling some pretty patterns in it for use as bed
edging.
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>Now, how do I keep baby frogs from sleeping on the underside of my basil
>leaves? It looks like an Ann Geddes photograph but probably wouldn't be
>too good in the PR or Pesto departments...
MMmmmm. Crunchy pesto (with real pests)
Wendy
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>Adriana
>
>> a straight soil planted greenhouse. Any thoughts on good inexpensive
>> snail
>> deterrents would be welcome ... also any good recipes for escargot
>> these things are 2 inches long !!!!
>>
>> Kevin Reed
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