[KwartzLab] pumpkins for Hacky Halloween

[Andrew Netherton]

If you would like, I can talk to Herrle's Country Farm Market (out Erb
St. past the landfill in Waterloo).  They have their own pumpkins, and
I know the family personally.  At the very least, you should contact
them - I'm sure they'd be receptive.

Andrew

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:10 AM, doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
> I talked to the guy at Nauman's farm.  Their best offer is this:
>  * Early on Saturday Oct 29: get a pickup truck from a rental agency.
>  * 9am on Saturday, we show up at the farm with the truck, they load
> us up with pumpkins.  We pay for all the pumpkins (half price).
>  * After the event, before they close, we bring back any pumpkins we
> didn't use, and they dispose of them.  No refunds, but they don't
> charge us for accepting waste, either, and they help us unload.
>
> They charge for pumpkins based on size. The smallest pumpkin that is
> easy to carve is $4.  The $5 pumpkin looks like a reasonable size (not
> too small or large).  So 100 $5 pumpkins will cost $250.  We let them
> know in advance how many pumpkins of what size we will need, and they
> ensure that those pumpkins are available and waiting for us when we
> show up.
>
> That's a completely workable plan. It requires $250 for pumpkins
> (unless we get < 100), plus truck rental, plus it's a full day's work
> for at least one volunteer.
>
> I'm not sure that we'll find a pumpkin farm desperate enough to
> dedicate a truck and a worker to spend a day at our event in exchange
> for the opportunity to sell 100 pumpkins, on what is probably a very
> busy day for pumpkin sales.  (The dynamics change if we hold the event
> at a pumpkin farm, but I'm not pursuing that idea.)
>
> However, I will continue talking to pumpkin farms to see if there is a
> better deal out there.
>
> Doug.
>
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