AMERICA'S FARMER'S MARKET
Support America's Public Schools By Supporting America'sSmall Specialty Food Producers
The Origin of America's Farmer's Market
It's likely you're familiar with the outdoor farmer's markets you see here and there in late summer and early fall. This website is a 24/7/365 on-line version of one of those, with a little twist. Simply stated, this website is a way small, local, specialty food producers can sell the gourmet treats you seldom see in most stores, directly to consumers, and support local public schools at the same time.
It all started with an idea, to do something like Paul Newman did to earn enough profits to do something really worthwhile by selling our own specialty food creations, some dressings and sauces? Well, after several years of trying to do just that, and finding out it's easier said than done, this evolved into another idea. This time, the idea was based on why the last idea wasn't so easy to accomplish.
It seems that in order to sell enough units of an item to pay all the costs of selling your specialty food products on a large enough scale to make enough profit to do something good with, there usually turns out to be far more expenses than anticipated, like brokers, distributors and store mark-ups, with little or no profits to show for the efforts.
Coincidentally, that's just how it seemed when talking with others travelling down the same specialty foods road, trying to make a profit creating and selling their own food products, usually pretty discouraging. Anyway, that's what inspired the next idea, this website. You see, we still wanted to create profits the way Paul Newman's food business did, and do some real good, so this led to a new plan.
Our initial goal was selling our own food products to help public schools having financial difficulties, as is often mentioned on the evening news. The new challenge, trying to figure out how to create a way all small, struggling specialty food producers everywhere could somehow unite to become successful. That brings us to America's Farmer's Market. Here's how the new plan came about.
While viewing our local public school'swebsite, I noticed there were links to a couple on-line malls which gave a small portion of their revenues to the schools, if the school signed on and added a link to the mall on their site. That, combined with what has been mentioned above, inspired the idea of America's Farmer's Market.
This new concept, selling directly to consumers as at a farmer's market via public school websites, could help all participating schools, as well as all participating small specialty food producers. In fact, by selling direct to consumers and eliminating many of the costs of selling in traditional stores, there will be enough profits to give 50% to participating schools, and still make a better profit than before.
100% of all revenues from purchases on America's Farmer's Market will go to public schools and local specialty food producers. Funding for this website comes from a small monthly membership fee paid to us by each producer.
Thus, has evolved the idea for America's Farmer's Market.
Here's how it works.
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