What is a Farm Stop?
The name, coined by Argus Farm Stop, is a new business model that seeks to support small farms, by providing a place where farmers can stop in during their busy days for a bit of coffee, conversation, and community. Importantly, they can then leave product behind and the Farm Stop will step in to represent the farm in selling their products.
Customers can make a quick visit to shop for all their food needs, and in the process learn more about where their food comes from, connect with farmers, and their community.
The farm stop name connects the community of people across the country that are strengthening local farms and food through this model.
Why Radish Farm Stop?
Radishes are the first thing I ever grew. They signal the start of something new, fresh, colorful.
In this messy world, in order to drive change, sometimes you need to get at the root of the problem, or question the very paradigms under which we operate, or the assumptions around what we are or what we could be.
Radish Farm stop aims to get to the root of the problem, our disconnection from local agriculture, to help foster a more transparent, radical food system.
“A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes” - Wendell Berry