Production costs are especially low for those who let the buyers do the harvesting. Farmers usually receive just 10-20 cents on the dollar for pumpkins sold wholesale. The return is 5 to 10 times better when sold direct.
Consumers often get a better deal as well.
Pumpkins purchased direct from the grower are often priced lower. The stand also contains a commercial kitchen, offering pies, cookies, jams, and jellies made from their own produce. Owners Andy and Martina Howe recently hosted the New Hampshire Vegetable and Berry Growers Association's summer meeting and gave tours of their fields of strawberries, tomatoes, and other vegetables. Turner harvests his first sweet corn around July 4, much earlier than other farmers, because it is grown under plastic for much of the spring for earlier harvest. The plastic cover is costly, but the corn from Turner's farm sells out quickly at area farm stands and farmer's markets.