The posts to my post give me the impression that some think I was trying to lure the members of this wonderful forum to that other GJ forum I found. Not so. I only posted the site to the other forum in case you'd like to take a "look see" at it. I did in fact look around on that site and even put it in my favorites for future viewing. There are some fantastic GJ ideas in it. If you in particular wanted to participate in the other forum, fine, that's up to you. As you can all see in my second post above, I agreed also that this is the best GJ forum on the web. Please don't take my post in the wrong manner. Sal

Absolutely! Every browser I know has an option to not view pictures. I don't know what program or version you're using, but my (relatively updated) Internet Explorer has it under Tools-->Internet Options-->Advanced (tab) and then you scroll down to the "Multimedia" section and uncheck the box marked "Show pictures". In Firefox it's slightly easier: go to Tools-->Options-->Content (tab) and uncheck the box marked "Load images automatically". Your program may vary somewhat, but it should be very similar.

Thanks, Melanie! Those gardens sure are inspirational!Thanks for sharing! Theresa

Thank you for all the responses! Let me say first that the point about units is well taken. I am going to add that to the site this weekend, you have defiantly opened my eyes to that. A lot of farmers compare the site to local harvest and while there is certainly some overlap I don't feel we really meet that same needs as they do. We are much more like locallygrown.net The pricing as compared to locallygrown.net is similar. We have a 5% plan which is more then locally grown, but also offer a $100 unlimited plan so if you sell more then $3,400 worth of product we have a better price then locally grown. For larger sellers potentially a lot less. The truth is any site like this will have to charge something unless there are some type of benefactors involved. It costs money to keep it online. I agree we need to drive traffic to the site, but I can't make customers come to a site that has nothing for sale. I don't want to get stuck in a chicken and egg argument but I will add it costs nothing and takes about 10 minutes to set up an account with us. If you never sell anything you are out nothing. While this is not my day job, I am a full time public school teacher, who has done farm work in the summer I have developed websites that have pulled in a lot of traffic in the past. I will do my best and reinvest the extra money in marketing, but I will not lie the individual farmers will still have to do their part in marketing their own farms. PS don't look too much into the sample listings, I made those just to test things out they where not created with care.