Casey O’Neill is a farmer and owner of Happy Day Farms in Laytonville, Calif. The opinions expressed in this column do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mendocino Voice. If you’d like to write your own column for The Mendocino Voice, send your idea to info@mendovoice.com.
This week I harvested 120 lbs of salad mix, which makes for a helluva lot of salads. Some of it went to our farmers market, CSA and farmstand customers, some to wholesale for a festival and some to food bank which is on the 3rd Friday of the month. It was the highest volume I’ve produced in a week, and it has me thinking about market channels, customer desires, crop planning and food safety.
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