Backyard Aquaponics
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I have more tomatoes then we can eat, and have folks who want to buy any that I don't keep. What is a fair price for AP grown toms? I was thinking around $5.00 a pt, or roughly $8.00 a pound. It's not going to net me much money, but will by enough food for the next year and help with the electric bill. A few friends that came by and tried them wanted them right away. That always makes you feel good!

You can always start at $8 a pound, and if none sell, you can always lower the price. If they sell like hotcakes, you can always increase it.

You can command a premium for organic AP toms, but I would not start too high until you have a good market. Work out what people are willing to pay, not what you want to be paid, as they will be very different.

Check out Ryan's thread at "Chatterson's farm is born" He is selling for $10-12 per pound, but that is at the markets and it is for heirloom toms that are apparently delicious. (or they would not sell.)

$8 per pound sounds about right. If they sell well, then increase production.

Hoping not to lower the price...that's for sure. I'm hoping to set the price and not have folks set it for me. That's easy, the hard part for me is that most are friends. If they just people coming in off the street, they're going to pay $10.00 a pound, or I'll sell them to our friends for 8 or eat them (:

The greedy part of me would just bottle them up, and have enough to keep you in spagetti bolognaise and lasagne for the rest of the year.

Ghost chili spaghetti sauce maybe interesting.

Yikes! I wont buy tomatoes when they hit $6 per kilogram, that's less than 3 bucks a pound. But my son reckons I'm a tightwad. I grow my own and get slabs of seconds cans from the cannery near my folks place for cooking over winter. I suppose its what people are willing to pay...

In Oz, about $5/kg would be about it I reckon. They are worth more than that to me, so apart form selling a few to friends on rare occasions, I either dry them or turn them into sauce to last the year.

I have never really looked at the price of fresh foods. I still eat too much junk food, fast food or frozen pizzas and it shows.

I do remember one place doing dirt grown organic beefsteak tomatoes at around $5 lb.