The Express has a nice piece on the eat local trend and on farmers market in DC. According the Express shoppers at the H Street FreshFarm market spend money more per farmer than customers at any other farmers market in DC. Is it the mutsu, or the okra? This is not to say it's the most profitable market (far from it), but only that the customers who come tend to spend significant amounts of money compared to the total number of farmers. I can say that the market has a lot of regular customers who make it each week and that the market will definitely be back next year.
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Great. I always wondered if they're doing well, just barely hanging on, ...? Sounds like people are spending. Now the baker guy needs to ease up on the artificial shortage of scones!
"Now the baker guy needs to ease up on the artificial shortage of scones!"
Damn Right. I hate having to go to his truck only to have no granola bars, and two loaves of bread left:) And that flower lady needs to be there more often. My wife digs the arrangements.
I am crushed when my wife returns from the market w/o scones. How can so much deliciousness be contained in such a small form?
as a fyi. i went the H street main street web site to get more info and it is a pornsite.
Yes, that would be the old site. The new sit is:
http://hstreet.org
lol @ porn operators yapping their old URL.
would be hysterical if someone on the board was using that as a side hustle.
10 million for a 'clean and safe' business membership? are they on angel dust over at HSMS? who's gonna pay that, family dollar?
Petey,
I think you're misreading that chart. Take a look at the .015 multiplier info above it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_market
That chart (and the rest of the site, frankly) is laid out in a very confusing way. I think the $10 million+ is actually supposed to represent a category of property value assessment. With the multiplier Inked mentioned, a business would be billed $1.5 on every $100 of assessed value. On $10 million, that's only $1500 a year.
The higher per capita spending at H Street is not a good thing. It is a sign of a weak market:
1) Each farmer gets $x/N on average, where $x is your weekly fresh food outlay and N is how many farmers. Therefore, the fewer farmers, the more money per farmer.
b) Prices rise in the absence of competition. The less overlap among farmers, the higher the prices and the sooner you blow your $x.
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