On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 00:09, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 08:31, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> More than good enough for me. It's verifiable, so ought to be good >> enough for >> anybody else. I'm interested in cheap test equipment, are the Avos old or >> new? :) >> > > New when they're in season, but I don't think they deliver, & it's going > to be a bit of an issue you coming to pick them up! :-) > For the right price on one of these it might be worth it. https://www.avo.co.nz/products/multifunction-installation-testers The fact that a shop is selling something produced on a farm doesn't make >> it a farm shop (otherwise a greengrocer would be >> a farm shop). A farm shop is on the grounds where the produce is grown. >> > > I suppose we could define it a bit closer in that a greengrocer sells > produce from multiple sources / suppliers, whereas a farm=shop only sells > produce produced on that farm? > That's how I understand it, going by the places around here that call themselves farm shops. They're on farm grounds selling their own products. > > But Cliff mentioned > > On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 08:46, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> > wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Dfarm > > Which says: "A shop that sells regional, seasonal, freshly harvested > goods. It could be also used for a roadside produce stand. *Similar > inner-city farm shops also exist that specialize in selling products direct > from (local/regional) farms.*" > Oh dear. That complicates matters. I don't know if the term is used in that way in the UK. I don't recall seeing it used in that way around here. > > We do actually buy things from the place that has the Cow poo, Eggs & > Tomatoes sign up, > All the ingredients needed for a perfect omelette. > & have spoken to them a few times. All their produce comes from their > son's farm ~40k west of here. So are they a shop=farm? > I would say not, by my understanding of the term. But I can't guarantee my understanding matches general UK usage. However, if we count that as a farm shop then the term essentially becomes an alias of greengrocer. A greengrocer with a single supplier, but still a greengrocer. An intermediary between the customer and the farmer. It's stretching things if the shop is attached to a private house and the >> produce is grown in the garden, >> > > So what do we call it if we have a bumper crop of mangoes & decide to put > a table out the front & sell them for $1 each? > Unless you do it regularly and people come to rely on you for their supply of mangoes, it's not worth mapping, is it? -- Paul
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