Yes, the shares are an investment, but it's rarely a farm's only source of income. Given that we were already 15 weeks in, though, I'd be more inclined to compare it to having bought a ticket to a fundraiser performance only to show up and find out one or more of the acts isn't going to be there.
I suspect the long-term may be a factor as well. I've been with Steve for four years and enjoyed excessive bounty for pretty much all of that time. I don't feel short-changed this year and past experience led me to conclude he'd come up with a way to do the right thing by folks, even if I had no idea what that right thing might be. Even the day of the announcement, I had no intention to leave him. (Bitching and moaning, otoh, is another story. Those are some of my favorite hobbies. ;)
My biggest complaint was and continues to be the comm issue. I think the same decision would have been taken very differently if it followed weeks of being told what was up. I've offered to help him with that on several occasions, but the problem is that once the season starts, he's too busy with the fields to deal.
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Date: 2009-09-29 09:12 pm (UTC)I suspect the long-term may be a factor as well. I've been with Steve for four years and enjoyed excessive bounty for pretty much all of that time. I don't feel short-changed this year and past experience led me to conclude he'd come up with a way to do the right thing by folks, even if I had no idea what that right thing might be. Even the day of the announcement, I had no intention to leave him. (Bitching and moaning, otoh, is another story. Those are some of my favorite hobbies. ;)
My biggest complaint was and continues to be the comm issue. I think the same decision would have been taken very differently if it followed weeks of being told what was up. I've offered to help him with that on several occasions, but the problem is that once the season starts, he's too busy with the fields to deal.