Yesterday, Emmett and I ventured into the Big Apple… and stumbled across actual apples, not to mention apple cider (which we purchased and swigged straight from the half-gallon jug), apple sauce, and hundreds of varieties of non-apple fresh produce.
We were there on business, meeting with our literary agent on Fifth Ave. to finally put a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘food prices’
August 14, 2008
the price of a radish: part two
August 10, 2008
do your farmers a favor
I want to bring up the idea of food consumers doing things to help their farmers.
Why should we help our farmers? What’s at stake? The fundamental answer comes in two simple parts: 1) the global food system is fragile; and 2) food is vital to human success and happiness. Relying on a complex and unstable global [...]
August 9, 2008
the price of a radish
How much would you charge — or pay — for a bunch of freshly picked French breakfast radishes?
Pricing produce at the farmer’s market is always a tricky endeavor. The case of the radish, I think, exemplifies farmers’ and shoppers’ competing cost value systems. I’ve parsed out the following cost value systems below:
1. The Economist. According [...]
