Jim, we, unfortunately, are in transition here. The locals are mostly lower income. We have way too many imports, ruining the place.
Not enough of them to really market organic to. A couple places are surviving doing that. But they are all hippies that got Pappy's farm.
Funny that, hippies marketing to the Man.
Anyhow, our markets are 100 miles away. Christmas time one of dad's friends used to take a pickup and trailer load of firewood to Pittsburgh, set in the mall and sell it.
All you can put on one arm $10. In the '80's he would come home with a weeks pay, in cash, for about a days effort. Same thing with sweet corn. Here it was around $1/dz there $3. Pull a trailer load out there for 2 hours sell for 3-4, come home.
I have a cousin that lives 20 odd miles from Hagerstown Md. He has made a fortune being a hillbilly in the city.
He had 20 or 30 acres that he truck farmed, and land here that he cut wood on to sell there. The stuff that we would sell here,
would bring 2-3 times more money for him.
