04/04/2024
Before you complain about someone’s prices, you should buy a cow.🐄
Before you tell someone their milk, meat, soap, cheese, butter, produce, etc. is over-priced, you should buy land.🌾
Buy land. Pay for infrastructure. Buy a cow. Buy equipment and supplies. Train the cow. Pay to feed the cow. Care for the cow. Learn to milk the cow. Actually milk the cow. Cry over milk the cow kicked and spilled everywhere. Cry over your sick cow while you sit up all night with the vet. Stay up all night with your cow.🐮
Before you complain about someone’s prices, show up. Show up every day. Even when it’s 106 or -2. Even when there’s a tornado. Even when it’s hailing. Even when it’s freezing and your hands don’t work right. Even when you only got one hour of scattered sleep the night before.⛈️☀️
This post is not to complain, I wouldn’t trade this life for anything. But it’s important that everyday people understand what they are paying for. Small farms like ours don’t get government subsidies. We pay for everything out of pocket. Before you make a comment about prices think this through. I genuinely believe people make these comments out of ignorance, not to be ugly or rude.🚜
Farmers pay for their products with their lives. Time, blood, energy, emotion, no days off. Most of us don’t break even, much less make a profit. We do this because we believe there is a better way.♥️
When you buy local, you pay for more than the soap or milk or produce in your hands. You help a small farmer make improvements to their farm or help the farm kid pay for that four wheeler they have been wanting.
Before you complain, buy a cow or grow a large garden.
Know your farmer, know your food. SHOP LOCAL👩🏼🌾 - Emily Rock
Thank you for everyone who makes our farm sustainable! We couldn't do it without our customers.
