I am on a list serve for a local foods group.
I think the local food craze is a good thing.
But........ some of these farmers are really unrealistic and they have NO idea that they are.
They expect to make $50,000 a year(like at their old job) on 20 acres. I know that there are going to be a lucky few that hit a niche market and can do real well. But their GOAL seems to be to have everyone selling local succeeding that well.
I got bashed BAD- for having the nerve to undercut their prices($10-$28 /lb grassfed). They said that by selling my beef local(even though mine is not grasssfed) I was ruining their whole system and taking them right back to where the "farmer" can't make a good living.
I am all for the farmer making a good living-- but if I can make a good living in a local market that does not directly compete with theirs
I don't see why they should worry about what I do.
They(as in "influential parties") are trying to keep the local marketing system(government funded) being developed to "grass fed" only now-- or I wouldn't care what they did or thought.
I think the local food craze is a good thing.
But........ some of these farmers are really unrealistic and they have NO idea that they are.
They expect to make $50,000 a year(like at their old job) on 20 acres. I know that there are going to be a lucky few that hit a niche market and can do real well. But their GOAL seems to be to have everyone selling local succeeding that well.
I got bashed BAD- for having the nerve to undercut their prices($10-$28 /lb grassfed). They said that by selling my beef local(even though mine is not grasssfed) I was ruining their whole system and taking them right back to where the "farmer" can't make a good living.
I am all for the farmer making a good living-- but if I can make a good living in a local market that does not directly compete with theirs
I don't see why they should worry about what I do.
They(as in "influential parties") are trying to keep the local marketing system(government funded) being developed to "grass fed" only now-- or I wouldn't care what they did or thought.