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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
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Vegetables are bursting out all over in gardens across Rappahannock but the biggest explosion comes near Castleton from Ted and George Triplett’s 13 acre experiment in direct marketing.
Ted Triplett, an orchardist and cattle producer all his life, has long been an advocate of selling directly to the consumer as an escape from the price-cost squeeze choking American farmers. But his was a “do as I say,” not “do as I do" approach.
When his sermons on direct marketing attracted few disciples, he decided to practice what he preached. After adding up the dollars and cents from the start of a season of selling at farmers markets ip Washington, D. C. and Culpeper, he still believes that direct marketing pays.
The concept is an idea whose time has come, at least in Rappahannock. Orchardists Sam Snead,
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