Ries
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To address the original question- yes, you can sell good mushrooms here.
you will not get them in every disco and carrefour- and you will not convince the majority of argentines to change their palletes.
But the volume you can grow, is certainly saleable.
At least 3 or 4 of the veggie stands in my neighborhood (which is not "hip") carry at least 3 or 4 kinds of mushrooms regularly.
They are run by decidedly non-hip Bolivians, and sell them to average Argentines. Very few expats in my barrio, I have never heard english in a fruiteria or chino.
I have a lot of friends who do this sort of thing in the states- and they do fine.
The average american doesnt eat goat cheese- but the woman who makes goat cheese 3 miles from me full time sells it for $25 a pound.
I fixed a tractor drive shaft yesterday for a farmer I know who grows high end, quality stuff.
The trick in BA would be- find 20 or so "hip and expensive" restaurants who would make regular weekly orders, and who know what they are and want em. Not that hard- take some legwork, and you would have to deliver, just like most of their other purveyors do.
Do the farmers markets. The Agronimo, once a month, the ones in Palermo, which are weekly but travel.
See if you cant get some of the newer health food stores (not traditional dieteticas) that carry produce- I have seen a half dozen new ones in the last 3 or 4 years, ranging from Caballito to Palermo, that can and would sell em.
You wont get em into a big wholesaler at the Central Market, so you wont sell to the small neighborhood fruit stands.
But nobody thought juice bars, or mate flavored gin, or bagels, or expensive choris, or craft beer, or a dozen other food products, would sell in Argentina either- and all those guys are making bank.
you will not get them in every disco and carrefour- and you will not convince the majority of argentines to change their palletes.
But the volume you can grow, is certainly saleable.
At least 3 or 4 of the veggie stands in my neighborhood (which is not "hip") carry at least 3 or 4 kinds of mushrooms regularly.
They are run by decidedly non-hip Bolivians, and sell them to average Argentines. Very few expats in my barrio, I have never heard english in a fruiteria or chino.
I have a lot of friends who do this sort of thing in the states- and they do fine.
The average american doesnt eat goat cheese- but the woman who makes goat cheese 3 miles from me full time sells it for $25 a pound.
I fixed a tractor drive shaft yesterday for a farmer I know who grows high end, quality stuff.
The trick in BA would be- find 20 or so "hip and expensive" restaurants who would make regular weekly orders, and who know what they are and want em. Not that hard- take some legwork, and you would have to deliver, just like most of their other purveyors do.
Do the farmers markets. The Agronimo, once a month, the ones in Palermo, which are weekly but travel.
See if you cant get some of the newer health food stores (not traditional dieteticas) that carry produce- I have seen a half dozen new ones in the last 3 or 4 years, ranging from Caballito to Palermo, that can and would sell em.
You wont get em into a big wholesaler at the Central Market, so you wont sell to the small neighborhood fruit stands.
But nobody thought juice bars, or mate flavored gin, or bagels, or expensive choris, or craft beer, or a dozen other food products, would sell in Argentina either- and all those guys are making bank.
