Now that the Brookside Farmer’s Market has started, I’ve been thinking about how we price things and how to justify what we charge. It’s a slippery slope. As farmers who receive NO subsidies from the government, we have to charge our customers the REAL price of growing a particular crop, while buffering that cost with […]
We all know spinach is good for us, right? Well… it depends. • Spinach is rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It has very few calories (7 calories and 0 g of fat per cup), provides few carbs, and 1 gram of fiber. • Baby spinach and mature spinach provide the same benefits, and both […]
…veggie stuff at the bottom of the post… first is kid stuff… scroll down if you want to skip the kid stuff… Do you have cabin fever? Ha. First snow day of the year. Andrew is so excited. And not for the reasons you would think. We bought a bunch of discounted fireworks last summer after […]
9 members! I know that may not sound like a lot, but it is! Usually, we get flooded with contracts and checks, finally, in March and April–well past when we have spent oodles and gobs of money on seeds, heating the greenhouse, chickity doo-doo, equipments, etc. So to have 9 of you believe in us […]
Okay. I lied. I didn’t mean to. I have told LOTS of folks that I was going to order FEWER varieties of vegetables, make simpler planting diagrams, eliminate funky weird things that nobody knows, nix veggies that I have to coerce market goers into sampling, and concentrate on the majority of crop that are completely […]
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