Join Rebecca’s Veggie Patch Farmers
Market and buy Locally Grown in the
Tampa Bay area USA

WE are a community-run market providing local products
from family farms with in a 50 mile radius of St Petersburg Florida

REBECCAS VEGGIE PATCH We are a hydroponic grower of all types of vegetables. We grow heirloom tomatoes strawberries, herbs, greens,carrots,okra eggplants,peppers,onions Swiss chard,squash, green beans,and several Asian items. We grow all our items in a grow media consisting of per-lite & coconut fiber.We use NO PESTICIDES. We use predator bugs in our farm operation and some organic compounds. We grow to organic guide lines but are not organic certified.

THIS IS HOW OUR FARMERS MARKET WORKS

The system is meant to emulate many aspects of a traditional “booth and tables” farmers,market. The customers are buying directly from the grower, at prices set buy the grower. The grower describes what is available, supplies photos of the items,and sets the purchase price.

THE CUSTOMER HAS CHOICES

Just like a traditional farmers market,the customer can browse everything that is available from all of the different growers. The customer can choose exactly what to buy, how much to buy, and from what grower to buy.

THE CUSTOMER HAS TIME TO DECIDE

Unlike a traditional market that may be open for a couple of hours (with all the good stuff gone soon after opening) Rebecca’s Veggie Patch Online Market is open for business four days a week. Long enough to fully browse and plan menus for a week.

AVAILABILITY IS FLEXIBLE

The growers estimate how much of each item that will be able to harvest a week ahead of time. This takes skill and practice. Even so, unpredictable factors—such as weather or not it is sunny on a Thursday morning can make a difference between having a bumper crop or a very small harvest. So, the site will allow customer to keep on ordering an item even if sales have passed the estimated availability. The item might not be there when the order is put together, but then again, it just might be.

THE PRODUCE IS HARVESTED TO ORDER

After the ordering window has closed, the growers are notified of all their orders for the week. They usually have a day or so to go out and harvest exactly what was ordered, package it, and deliver to the pick-up site.

PAYMENT IS TAKEN WHEN THE ORDERS ARE PICKED UP

Most market will have a set time and location for customers to pick up their orders. Payment is not made when the order is placed through the website but is instead made in person when the order is picked up. This is because adjusting the amount owed for an order will be a common occurrence. Maybe something ran short due to bad weather, or maybe there were extra items available on the table when the customer arrived, or maybe the grower decided to adjust the price down at the last minute to account for an imperfection. In any case,it is much easier to do this in person rather than going back and trying to issue credits and adjustments through your credit card processor.

The system does keep track of customer balances, so it is possible to allow customers to conveniently pay as much as they want in advanced and then “draw down” on their balance.

One aspect to this, however, is that if a customer places an order but for whatever reason dose not arrive to pick it up, the customer is still responsible for paying for that order. Since everything is harvested to order, the growers still had to work to put the order together, and therefor still get paid for that effort.

Each Sunday evening, a list of available products is sent to all of our registered customers by e-mail. Customers must place their order for the week no later than Thursday at 5:00 p.m. Orders can be placed here on our website or by responding directly to the e-mail. Ordering through this web site is Rebecca’s Veggie Patch preferred method as it is designed to reduce the amount of time it takes us to process orders as well as provide you with detailed information about our products.

Orders can then be picked up on Fridays from 12:00am until 7:00pm. Customers can pick-up their orders at Gulfport Produce located at 5133 Gulfport Blvd south same as 22nd ave south Gulfport Fl 33707 Phone 727-408-1746 Dwan Brock

Click on the Market Page above to view this weeks offerings.