YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. ( blackfarmersindex.com )

HubertManne , 1 month ago

Im pretty happy to get an locally grown products. Im lucky though as we have lots of farmers markets and its not hard to sign up for a monthly box.

leisesprecher , 1 month ago

Here in Germany we have similar projects, but it seems the producers/farmers often have absolutely no idea how to anticipate or meet the demand of their customers.

Like, I'm very aware that farming is a seasonal business, you can't really grow much salad during the German winter without a greenhouse. Perfectly fine. What is not fine is dumping basically your entire salad harvest for that season in a 4 week window onto paying customers.

You'll get 8 salad heads per week for a month or two, almost inevitably throwing or giving most of it away, and then you'll get 5 kilos of some roots for the next 3 months.

HubertManne , 1 month ago

It sorta works this way here. They try their best but there will be a lot of kale. They have this thing were you have some ability to substitute as well

Blackmist , 1 month ago

Monthly box subscriptions have always been that though. You're getting whatever they can't shift.