Message from the farmers
Greetings,
I would guess that most people who have paid attention to the ups and downs of the financial markets lately are surprised to have seen or experience personally, such dramatic decreases in the estimated value of the financial assets they may hold or simply be watching. Even as just an observer, I have found myself saying, “WOW”, and “OMG!” more than once over the last week.
Truth be told, it is not unlike the dramatic change in estimated yield or harvest a farmer may experience with his or her crop when there is a sudden weather, disease or insect problem. I have unfortunately experienced all of the above at some point in the history of our farm. In addition to events that happened with regard to ‘Mother Nature’, I unwillingly had to accept learning the other side of difficult realities associated with vegetable farming from distributors, transportation companies, brokers and wholesalers. When those ‘dramatic events’ happened with the farm, I found my self saying things just a bit different from the expressions above.
I learned the hard way not to ‘bank on’ the vegetables boxes we were scheduled to ship, until they were harvested, transported, accepted at the dock of the receiver and proper payment credited to our bank account. Accordingly, things will have to settle out with the financial markets in the many weeks ahead until anyone can tell what have been good or bad investment decisions.
I have to say that providing vegetables directly to members in the CSA has been a welcomed change in our farm production. It has removed a lot of the intermediate steps involved with distribution of our vegetables, worry, and volatility out of the financial picture of our farm. From our perspective, it has been a good investment of our efforts. I hope that knowing your investment in our farm CSA has continued to ‘grow’, with all the moderate weather we’ve been blessed with, and has proved to be a good investment decision for you as well.
The only time I find my self saying, “Wow, OMG!” now on the farm, is when I see how great some of the vegetables look and taste. I hope you have the same reactions when you receive your CSA vegetables every week.
You’ll hear me saying this more in the future too, Thank You, for helping make our farm CSA happen.
Be well,
Fred & Karen
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