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Farmer’s Market Strategies w/ Catt Fields-White: On Pricing, Scaling & When to Walk Away

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"People would rather die than be embarrassed" is Kat's case for putting prices on every market product.

Sarah Delavan and Chelsea Steer open the show with a season 16 check-in and a major milestone. The Good Food CFO software has just entered beta with members, which sets the tone for a conversation about building real systems. Kat joins to talk through farmers-market logistics from the ground up. The conversation moves quickly into the economics of serving multiple markets in a week, and it does not stay abstract for long. It gets into the logistics of getting product to each location on time. That can mean a delivery person. It can mean staff moving from one market to another. It can mean trucks starting at the earliest stop and following the day’s route. The episode treats that as an operations problem, not a side note. Sarah asks whether there should be a class just for this kind of planning. Kat says the team has already worked with individual clients on exactly these questions. The talk also widens into what scaling really looks like in practice. More markets can mean more sales, but they can also mean more complexity. The show keeps returning to the reality that farmers markets are not all the same. Some setups are manageable. Others are a hard part of the job, especially when parking, access, and transport are tight. Kat points out that some of the biggest operators can cover far more ground because they have a strong team behind them. That is not the same as saying the system is fair. The conversation is candid about how expansion can tilt benefits toward the top of the chain, not the actual maker. The overall mood stays warm, but it never loses its edge. It is a working session about how to make money in a channel that looks simple from the outside and is anything but simple once the math and logistics show up.

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A practical look at farmers-market scaling, multi-market logistics, and who really benefits.

The episode treats farmers-market strategy as a plain operating problem, not a hobby. Sarah Delavan and Chelsea Steer talk through multi-market logistics, including how product gets moved to spread-out markets, and the discussion keeps circling back to the harder question: when…

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