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zarabell1d ago
When you talk about chefs jostling for the first harvest, that hustle might have hidden how slim the pickings were getting. All that restaurant demand could have made the market seem busier than it really was for regular folks. So now the cutbacks might show the real scale of local farming, which is kinda sobering.
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king.brian15h ago
Noticed something similar in a piece from the local paper... they pointed out that when restaurants buy up early crops, it leaves less for farmers markets and regular customers. Which kinda lines up with what @zarabell is saying about the hustle hiding slim pickings. That demand from high-end places creates a bubble... makes everything look thriving until the checks stop coming. Heard from a farmer at the market that once the restaurant orders dropped, they had to scale back big time. It's like the real picture of local farming was under all that fancy food hype. Now we see how much was just for show... and how little was actually growing for everyday people.
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thomasb244h ago
Man, that reminds me of a burger place I used to love. They had this big sign about "local beef" but then quietly took it down and jacked up prices. My buddy's cousin supplies them (or did) and said they were basically buying just enough local stuff for the marketing angle. Makes you wonder how many other spots were doing the same thing, you know?
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