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Category:Market Gardener
MARKET GARDENER. The term "market garden" has been used to describe farms devoted to raising vegetables and berries, a specialized type of farming, in contrast to the larger branches of grain, dairy and orchard fruit farming. Such operations were not necessarily small-scale. They were called "gardens" not because of size, but because English-speaking farmers traditionally referred to their vegetable plots as "gardens". A "market garden" was simply a vegetable plot intended by the farmer for sale as opposed to a vegetable plot intended to feed the farmer's family. Market gardens are necessarily close to the markets they serve.
Farmers selling to the wholesale market typically receive 10-20% of the retail price, but in direct-to-consumer selling they receive 100%. Larger market gardens often sell to local food outlets, including supermarkets, food cooperatives, through community-supported agriculture programs, at multiple regional farmers' markets, to fresh food wholesalers, and any other higher-volume channels that benefit from buying a range of vegetables from a single supplier. By mixed crop production, a larger market garden can maintain a sales alternative to the wholesale commodity-style channels often used by farms specializing in high volumes of a limited number of crops.
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In Dubuque, those who have advertised themselves as market gardeners have included:
Pages in category "Market Gardener"
The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.