Saturday, August 18, 2012

A non-monetary enterprise? (guest post by Alex)

Jenise and our girls are away for 2 weeks, and I am here running the garden by myself. We have truly entered into the harvest phase. I am struggling to find good homes for the fruits of our labors, but more than that, I am struggling to find a model for how this is going to work in the long term. Except for the seedlings, it just does not make sense to try to sell our veggies for money - the scale is too small, and if we need money there are easier ways to get it. So I have created an email list of friends & helpers and set the challenge: how should we organize ourselves to trade vegetables for labor and social capital? If you would like to be part of the discussion, just email me, or subscribe yourself at cropmob-subscribe@highgroundmicrofarm.org .