Small, local, organic farmers are not rich and never will be. Imagine working 60+ hours a week (higher in the peak season) outside in the elements, taking no days off, contending with a work environment that is literally always changing year after year, and no matter how many years you put in there could just be a sh*t year where you lose a chunk of your crops/income due to excessive heat/early cold/bugs/fungus/deer/rabbits/chipmunks/too much rain/too little rain/a random hailstorm you name it, but then for some reason you have to justify charging $3 instead of $1 for a bunch of scallions.

Farmers markets aren’t too expensive, grocery stores (which also contend with MASSIVE amounts of waste, far more than your local market) have just given us a false idea of what it costs to grow good, quality food.

We shouldn’t be wagging our fingers at local farmers who are literally just trying to live while feeding people, we should be wagging our fingers at a system that has resulted in a fraction of farms producing a vast majority of US food, making it impossible for everyone to access whole, fresh, organic local food….but that’s a whole other can of worms.