[CH] Possible Red Savina Pick-up In Oxnard, CA destined for N. Calif.
Art Pierce (pierces@cruzio.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:47:30 -0700
SF Bay and other N. Calif chileheads,
We need people to commit to buying red savinas.
They go for as much as $26/lb. on the web.
Here's what's starting to go on right now.
Rob & Joni Rayment of Salsa,etc. in Milpitas aren't getting their usual
500-lb [50 boxes at 10-lb.each.] of red savinas @ $2/lb. from Frank &
Mary Garcia (at GNS Spices in Walnut, southern CA, 800-870-6657. The
boxes are approx. 12"x12"x18"deep. They keep for two to three months in
a refrigerator, and up to a year in a freezer (lose their crunchy
texture once their frozen).
Frank & Mary started picking yesterday, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1998. They
will pick thru Thursday, Oct. 15th and then have a 32,000-lb. order to
be picked, starting Friday, Oct 16th, so this buy for N. Calif. needs to
take place before Oct 16th.
Mary also said World Variety, (800) 468-7111, will be supplying savinas
to Albertson's/Lucky's supermarkets. The regular habs go for @2.99/lb.
(at least) at our local Albertson's, so I imagine the savinas will be a
little pricey at your local market.
The savinas can be stored in the Grey Bears' big cooler, 2710
Chanticleer, near the only drive-in movie theater in Santa Cruz,
(831)-479-1055. (Grey Bears is a non-profit that supplies weekly brown
bags of food to the elderly and elderly shut-ins for $20/year.)
If I remember rightly, Rob, to encourage buying of larger amounts,
started at ~$6/lb. for less than 10-lb., then stepped the price down at
25-lb. and 50-lb. amounts, fimally pricing it at a low of $3/lb. for
100-lb. Rob's biggest buyer was 100# by Jack Curry at the Prince of
Wales in San Mateo. Jack isn't getting that much this time, but I'm
trying to get enough people together to keep the $/lb. price down.
That's $1000 plus gas money to Oxnard and back to Santa Cruz (~1200miles
/ ~20mpg x ~$1.50/gallon = ~$100). This works out to ~$2.25/lb (I'll
show the receipts and give any profit to Grey Bears).
Mary says they'll pick the peppers one day before we pick them up and
cool them down at the Driscoll Farners' Coop, 3939 East Hueneme Road,
Oxnard, CA 93033; (805)-488-0333.
Anybody in Northern California that's interested, please email a reply,
how much you're interested in, so we can make this take place.
[Mary said she'd talk to Frank tonight about possibly letting us do as
little as 25 boxes (i.e., $500), but that's just a thought at this
stage. This would work out to ~$2.50/lb. (I'll show the receipts and
give any profit to Grey Bears).]
Thanks,
Art
(831)-724-7204
[Scott Ashkenaz: I'm putting all this info here so any entrepreneurial
type can pick up on it in the future, or even this year, if they keep
the price down.]