Due to the broad reaching effects of supply chain issues, increased vendor costs and improved company benefits, I have determined a need to adjust our prices and home delivery fee so that we can continue to deliver the best food we can to you, while supporting our farmers.
“If we want to save the land,
we must save the people who belong to the land.”
—Wendell Berry
Community is not convenient. It calls on us in countless ways to step up, support and serve. It asks that we not assume its inevitability, not assume that it will always be there for us even in the absence of our reciprocity. In our anonymous, transactional economy it is easy to be lured by something more seductive and seemingly effortless, to slip into the mindset of “the customer is always right.” This is not community.
Productivity is peaking on the farms, while we all go on our well-deserved vacations. It is a real dilemma. How can we continue to support the farmers who feed us all year when we go away?
I have a wish as we return to more “normal” lives: that we all redefine normal after such a year. That we remain committed to our communities and those who feed us, and leave behind the thoughtless consumer behavior that has caused so much damage over these past decades to our land, climate, those who feed us, and those who care for us.
