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Re: Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality

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Post by perspectivezoom »

skyberrys wrote: post #5

It sounds like you need me to visit your market ( or my market... It only takes one super user per market and I assure you I am almost always there), film everything and then feed that into your website. I like the idea, but it's not complex for my fanatical farmers market mind. It only has two geographic regions and okay 1 is only hours driving from me, but I would be more likely to use it if it was my own region. A…

> Also it has a picture of an avocado and no data about avocados.

If you're referring to the middle left picture in SF, that's actually a plum from Vacaville, CA: https://pomological.art/watercolors/POM00005135.

There's some code to prefer the produce you select, but there really aren't that many unique fruits in the collection; just lots of varietals of the same fruit.

https://pomological.art/watercolors is pretty neat. You can see that there's 3788 apple drawings, far more than any other, and it quickly dies down to 959 peaches and 445 pears. For any given region, there's only like ~7 unique fruits to draw from.

Re: Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality

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Post by hackernud3s »

skyberrys wrote: post #5

It sounds like you need me to visit your market ( or my market... It only takes one super user per market and I assure you I am almost always there), film everything and then feed that into your website. I like the idea, but it's not complex for my fanatical farmers market mind. It only has two geographic regions and okay 1 is only hours driving from me, but I would be more likely to use it if it was my own region. A…

Are people really driving hours to get to farmers markets? The carbon footprint of that feels like irony.

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Post by sghiassy »

perspectivezoom wrote: post #10

Oh, neat. I submitted this a few days ago, and it got no traction back then. Thanks mods for giving it a second chance. I probably should mention that I'm looking for new opportunities. My LinkedIn is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/perspectivezoom and you can reach out there or at hn@perspectivezoom.com.

Really liked the project. Printed it out and put it on my fridge. Best of luck on the search

Re: Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality

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Post by skyberrys »

hackernud3s wrote: post #12
skyberrys wrote: post #5

It sounds like you need me to visit your market ( or my market... It only takes one super user per market and I assure you I am almost always there), film everything and then feed that into your website. I like the idea, but it's not complex for my fanatical farmers market mind. It only has two geographic regions and okay 1 is only hours driving from me, but I would be more likely to use it if it was my own region. A…

Are people really driving hours to get to farmers markets? The carbon footprint of that feels like irony.

I don't think so, but when I am driving long distance I do make a habit to stop by all the local markets. The funniest situation was when I went to one in AZ, this one vendor had incredible raspberries just like home. I asked his secret... he had driven hours that morning from my home. He was on his way to selling out though.

Re: Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality

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Post by hackernud3s »

skyberrys wrote: post #14
hackernud3s wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are people really driving hours to get to farmers markets? The carbon footprint of that feels like irony.

I don't think so, but when I am driving long distance I do make a habit to stop by all the local markets. The funniest situation was when I went to one in AZ, this one vendor had incredible raspberries just like home. I asked his secret... he had driven hours that morning from my home. He was on his way to selling out though.

I hope he at least was driving an EV. Sigh.
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