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Hi, my name is Larry Landis and I’ve been involved in the farmer’s markets here in
Corvallis for about 20 years. Within a month or so we were involved in the establishment
of the Corvallis Saturday Farmers’ Market, which started in June of 1991. Well, the Saturday
farmer’s market is located—actually, both farmer’s markets in Corvallis—are located
on the riverfront on First Street. The market is important as a major marketing outlet for
many small farmers.
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So, I got into this with beekeeping originally when I was nine years old. This is our blackberry
honey. There’s probably actually a little bit of maple in it also, which is very common
local honey. We direct market most of our products to farmer’s markets, restaurants,
buying clubs up in Portland, the restaurants in Corvallis, Albany, and Portland.
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Our farm is called the Mushroomery and we’re an organic mushroom farm and we grow mushrooms
year round and we also wildcraft mushrooms in Oregon year round. Today, we have truffles,
and cauliflower, coral, chanterelles, hedgehog, fried chicken, winter chanterelles. And so,
we spend half our week mushroom hunting and half our week working at the farm. And it’s
a family run farm.
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So, we have acorn squash. We have about 60 varieties of pumpkin and squash in the field
right now. We have some kiwis and watermelon growing down on Kiger Island drive. A whole
heck of a lot of pumpkin and squash.
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The market is important as a major marketing outlet for many small farmers. A lot of the
small farms in this area have multiple marketing outlets, but the markets give them contact
with anywhere from three to six thousand potential customers each market day. So, even if they
don’t sell to everybody, there’s certainly the high visibility, which can translate into
sales through other venues.