SHARE DESCRIPTION
4 weeks
June 1 - July 20
A balanced share containing seasonally available roots, shoots, fruit and leaves. Available every other week.
*A NOTE ON SLIDING SCALE PRICING
We use a sliding scale pricing system: $20/week, $25/week, and $30/week. All shares will contain the same amount and type of produce. Examine your financial ability and class privilege. Here is a guide to help understand class distinctions and income brackets.
Within this guide, I identify as Poor or Working Class. I also unquestioningly benefit and receive access to opportunities because of my race. With the amount of income I make as a farmer, I qualify for SNAP benefits – what we used to call food stamps. Go figure. I pay my employees about $15/hr, and I would love to be able to pay myself a living wage as well. If you are able to contribute more, please do. This levels the playing field. In this way, we each offer what we can and trust that we will all have enough. I have set the price range so that I will not go bankrupt if every person chose the $20/wk share, though the amount of produce in a share can realistically be priced at $30/wk. The dollar cost of vegetables, wherever you buy them, is arbitrary. Our prices are comparable to or less than Farmers Market prices. Farmers Market prices are based on what you find at grocery stores, where produce comes from enormous mechanized operations around the world that rely on unfairly compensated workers and heavy subsidies. The comparison is problematic. I look forward to more creative experiments with pricing to examine the complexity of wealth and to move towards a gift economy.
4 weeks
June 1 - July 20
A balanced share containing seasonally available roots, shoots, fruit and leaves. Available every other week.
*A NOTE ON SLIDING SCALE PRICING
We use a sliding scale pricing system: $20/week, $25/week, and $30/week. All shares will contain the same amount and type of produce. Examine your financial ability and class privilege. Here is a guide to help understand class distinctions and income brackets.
Within this guide, I identify as Poor or Working Class. I also unquestioningly benefit and receive access to opportunities because of my race. With the amount of income I make as a farmer, I qualify for SNAP benefits – what we used to call food stamps. Go figure. I pay my employees about $15/hr, and I would love to be able to pay myself a living wage as well. If you are able to contribute more, please do. This levels the playing field. In this way, we each offer what we can and trust that we will all have enough. I have set the price range so that I will not go bankrupt if every person chose the $20/wk share, though the amount of produce in a share can realistically be priced at $30/wk. The dollar cost of vegetables, wherever you buy them, is arbitrary. Our prices are comparable to or less than Farmers Market prices. Farmers Market prices are based on what you find at grocery stores, where produce comes from enormous mechanized operations around the world that rely on unfairly compensated workers and heavy subsidies. The comparison is problematic. I look forward to more creative experiments with pricing to examine the complexity of wealth and to move towards a gift economy.