Market Farming

["Betsy Levy" <blevy AT rsocsun.tamu.edu>]

I'm curious whether anyone has tried handing out a statement about
conventional food production and distribution, maybe describing the path a
grocery store lettuce follows - from harvest by underpaid disadvantaged
workers, then 2000 miles on a truck, then several days in cold storage, etc.
I'd be really interested to hear whether the complaining customers care
about this, whether they're uncomfortable with food from far away -

> One thing we will do is tell our complainers that we don't make minimum
wage
> doing what we are doing-for our regular customers I have actually sent out
a
> paper stating what we made versus what we spent. That has opened several
> eyes as many folks really did think we were getting rich from organic
> growing/farming.
>