A few simple changes (donated funds to purchase farm surplus, access to cooking classes, a talented chef) result in a whole plethora of positive outcomes?  We’re talking benefit after benefit piled up as high as the produce on the most abundant farm stand table you can imagine!

I’ve written about my love for stacking benefits- the idea that at the farm, labor can be a scarce resource so I am always looking from a management perspective as to what changes I can make or what systems I can set up or what infrastructure needs to be in place so that one change can result in at least two but hopefully many more benefits.

It is important for us to understand how powerful our food dollar truly is. Where that dollar ends up can reinforce positive, healing, transparent and just food systems, or it can support deeply damaging production practices that thrive on secrecy, false advertising, and exploitation.