I think our voucher idea is brilliant.*
It's not just a cool way to get your cheese, it also inspired a lot of email conversations between me and the flock, that is, our CSA subscribers.
I had to 'fess up to my brain blips when it comes to numbers.I don't know why I have trouble with numbers because I'm pretty mathematically oriented. I just don't count all that well. My confession elicited many notes of sympathy and understanding. Thanks for that.
I also received a number of address updates (don't forget to keep us in the loop or we can't keep you in the loop).
Many of our flock forgot whether they'd signed up for vouchers or baskets. This led to emails back and forth to sort that out. Some people didn't get them at all although we sent them out and recorded the dates. I blame Canada Post. But I'm not too hard on them because I have to tell you, our local post office, around the corner from my house has the friendliest posties I've ever encountered.
I think lots of people wondered how much cheese they could eat in a year when they considered a CSA subscription. At the $1000 level, $300 in cheese vouchers is a lot of cheese. But is $50 worth of cheese enough?
Daniel, who shares Saturday market duty with Ruth, spends some of his Monday at the computer cancelling the used vouchers. He goes into each file and notes which person used which numbered voucher. Last week Daniel was pretty excited when he realized that one of our flock has used up this years batch of vouchers already! Wow. And we haven't even started making our new cheeses yet.
* Have you noticed that Vicki's Veggies, also at the Green Barn Market is using vouchers too?
By the way, I'm heading over to the dairy tomorrow to take more pictures of the construction. Wonder how much it's changed since Friday.