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.

Why are Americans so obsessed with skin colour

I rather not give people money by merit of the colour of their skin, though. Fuck me, right?

It's cool, but buying produce from your neighbors is also cool. Strong communities thrive together

To everybody saying "reverse racism" or whatever your wording is to imply that buying specifically from black people is problematic, why? Do you think that you would have a hard time finding a white run CSA to buy? This is just a resource for people interested in supporting the black community and frankly I see any form of opposition to it as pretty blatant racism itself. I'll return from a Google search with what I find for other race specified CSA indexes in a bit.

I'm back,

https://www.queerfarmernetwork.org/

Here's an LGBTQ farm share directory. Is it reverse bigotry to purchase from them? I had to play with search terms a bit but a combination of CSA, farm share, agriculture share, and your chosen identifier should produce you results.

I am genuinely looking for an answer because I'm fucking baffled by this thread.

Just don't buy meat directly - especially if you are hungry for bat and live in China.

Finding a farm close where you want is made unnecessarily difficult by the site’s interface. The grouping of states in regions is a hindrance and once you get to your state, the farms can’t be sorted other than by their name, so you have to look through every single one of them to find the farms close to you.

Great idea, terrible execution.

This is great. Is there something similar for finding local farms regardless of race?

"Can" cost less is doing a lot of work there. I would guess it would mildly annoy people in power, but TBH this isn't a way to save money. If it really was, it would be common practice already.

There are lots of people who frequent local / smaller farms for things like access to organic foods / rarer crops / community support, but I've never known it to be cheaper than the industrial produce one can get at your nearest supermarket. Supermarkets clobbered local guys for a reason and pricing was a huge part of that.

I would really like an Imperfect Foods replacement. Originally, IF was scratch and dent ugly veggies on discount with some consignment items. Post covid, prices crept up and then you had to pick and choose to get a deal, but you could still get a good box for under $40 every 2 wks that also included things like farro and yogurt. Misfit Marketplace bought them out and it took on a Whole Foods by mail vibe. Double to triple the regular grocery store prices. It would be $80+/week for the same box content which is galling. And it’s not the groceries, it’s MM. Who is paying $3 for 1 cucumber? $4 for 2 apples? $8 for a single pound of grapes or a pint of blueberries?

New potential produce sources are most welcome.

In Taiwan, we had "day markets" where local farmers and fishers sell produce directly to you from the previous day's harvest. Every city has at least a few dozen day markets as well. It really serves the community and not big corps.

Some veggies still have live bugs(ladybugs) on it. That's how fresh it is.

It also cost 1/4 the cost in a corporate grocery store.

So every "farm" in my region is actually a community plot you can rent space in or a non profit outreach...no farms to purchase from.

How is this not racist? If there were a service where you could choose to buy directly from white farmers peoples would lose their minds

Sadly and unsurprisingly, nothing near me. On the bright side, we do have a farmer's market so I'll just continue to patron that and say that if you have one near you, definitely check them out!

I think we should come up with a term for the kind of people to whom the color of a person's skin is this important.

So no asian farms, no spanish farms, no middle eastern farms?

Why just black farms? Doesn't this lend itself to the trope of black people being farmhands?

Thanks so much for this! I don't mind scrolling and clicking either.

Well, only 2 within reasonable distance. One only sells microgreen kits. The other appears to be a supplier for restaurants, etc.

I zipped them an email to ask about private sales. But, definitely nothing on their website about sales and shipping to the public.

Region 5; Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. Why are Ohio and Wisconsin grouped with the same link?

https://blackfarmersindex.com/region-5-wisconsin-%2B-ohio

Thank you! I did not know that. Last news that I heard about black farmers was about then getting screwed by massive ag conglomerates.

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.

I don't think this reads as what it was probably intended initially...

C.S.A

Will it? What will eventually happen if this gains any sort of popularity is that those people you think it will piss off will simply set up their own "grass roots" alternative the directly competes with them by gaslighting them about their "horrible practices they don't want you to know", along with funding "white farmers against bullshit affirmative action racist against whites" types of movements as the cherry on top.