We hope the long survey didn’t turn you off, but getting basic input on each type of vegetable and fruit gave us a lot of good data to look at. It’s difficult to reach consensus about how much of each crop to request from our farmers, but where there was a clear majority for “Too Little” or “Too Much” we can definitely ask for changes next year. For vegetables, that list looks like this:
Too Little
91% Sweet Potatoes
87% Brussel Sprouts
85% Broccoli
75% Cauliflower
71% Cucumbers
67% Spinach
67% Scallions
65% Eggplant
64% Peas
62% Onions
55% Leeks
55% Tomatoes
52% Beets
Too Much
75% Potatoes
For fruit, obviously, it was pretty clear that apples were oversupplied while berries were marginalized (more on this below). And for eggs — well, maybe it was a little silly to ask the same questions for eggs.
If you’re interested, you can see pretty graphs of the survey results here.