A season sold before it is grown
Furrow & Basket started on four rented acres with a single farmers market stand and thirty share members who paid up front in March for a season that had not been planted yet. That up-front commitment is still the whole model: members fund the seed and the planting, and the farm plans exactly how much ground to put into each crop based on how many shares sold.
That means a bad week for tomatoes is a bad week for every member at once, and a heavy squash year shows up in every box the same way. Sharing the risk of the season is the arrangement, not a side effect of it.
Twelve acres now, eleven full-time growing weeks a year, and about two hundred and ten shares sold before the first seed goes in the ground each spring.
