We basically need some websites set up and logistics set up for delivery.
City folk seem more dependant on deliveries and services like Hello Fresh so if farmers can sell more directly than to supermarkets, it'll probably be a win even with delivery fees.
I remember going to the farmer's market before it got ruined. You could get tons of good vegetables from what was very obviously like the farm family selling the stuff they'd grown. As I got older, more and more Mexicans were getting in buying cases of foreign stuff from food distributors and undercutting the farmers by something like a nickel, and instead of making them go broke of course they buy the 20 cent tomato instead of the 25 cent one. Last time I went to such a thing in a city, that's about all that was left and all the actual farmers were replaced by women selling their etsy shit.
Community Supported Agriculture is sort of what your looking for. Helps support farmers by pre-selling their crop to have a more predictable income, and the customers get fresh, seasonal produce every month or so. Usually dropped off at a central collection location, so not exactly farm-to-door delivery. Mileage may vary depending on the farms around you.
That's actually a really interesting idea; a less local organization along the lines of Uber (as an example, not a specific proposal), combined with an extremely local thing such as farm coops. Local products through local farmers, but delivered and ordered through a nationwide service portal.
You haven't eaten beef until you've had good beef from a ranch like that. I was just talking to a friend yesterday about us splitting a cow 2 or 3 ways and paying his uncle who has a small ranch to raise it for us. At the moment I drive about 25 miles out every so often to a smaller town to a butcher shop that is still a ton better than the plastic packed crap at the store.
how do you get city slickers to do that?
We basically need some websites set up and logistics set up for delivery.
City folk seem more dependant on deliveries and services like Hello Fresh so if farmers can sell more directly than to supermarkets, it'll probably be a win even with delivery fees.
I remember going to the farmer's market before it got ruined. You could get tons of good vegetables from what was very obviously like the farm family selling the stuff they'd grown. As I got older, more and more Mexicans were getting in buying cases of foreign stuff from food distributors and undercutting the farmers by something like a nickel, and instead of making them go broke of course they buy the 20 cent tomato instead of the 25 cent one. Last time I went to such a thing in a city, that's about all that was left and all the actual farmers were replaced by women selling their etsy shit.
many stalls are scams. they buy stuff from wholesale places and put on their own stickers.
You have to live in a place where small scale agriculture is still prevalent. You want to go to a real farmer's market?
Northeast Wisconsin. Any of the fox valley cities.
Community Supported Agriculture is sort of what your looking for. Helps support farmers by pre-selling their crop to have a more predictable income, and the customers get fresh, seasonal produce every month or so. Usually dropped off at a central collection location, so not exactly farm-to-door delivery. Mileage may vary depending on the farms around you.
https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
That's actually a really interesting idea; a less local organization along the lines of Uber (as an example, not a specific proposal), combined with an extremely local thing such as farm coops. Local products through local farmers, but delivered and ordered through a nationwide service portal.
You haven't eaten beef until you've had good beef from a ranch like that. I was just talking to a friend yesterday about us splitting a cow 2 or 3 ways and paying his uncle who has a small ranch to raise it for us. At the moment I drive about 25 miles out every so often to a smaller town to a butcher shop that is still a ton better than the plastic packed crap at the store.