{"id":72797,"date":"2020-07-16T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/?p=72797"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:09:14","slug":"time-to-try-an-honor-system-farm-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/time-to-try-an-honor-system-farm-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Try An &#8216;Honor System&#8217; Farm Stand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine buys just-picked produce, goat cheese and even fresh bread from a farm stand near her neighborhood, and, yep, I&#8217;m a little jealous.<\/p>\n<p>The place is open daily from 9 to 6 and runs on the honor system. In other words? Customers roll up, grab what they need, stuff their cash or checks in a secure box nearby and go.<\/p>\n<p>Self-service stands like this used to be pretty common. And in the age of coronavirus and the need for social distancing? They could very well make a comeback.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/start-a-pumpkin-patch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consider starting a pumpkin patch to increase your farm profits.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Growing the Local Food Economy<\/h2>\n<p>Mike Record co-owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newgroundfarm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Ground Farm<\/a> in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife, Lisel. The pair modeled their Bethel Lane Farm Stop\u2014the spot my friend frequents\u2014after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argusfarmstop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Argus Farm Stop<\/a> in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Argus is] a low-profit endeavor,\u201d Record says. \u201cThey&#8217;re trying to put as much of the money that goes through the Farm Stop back into the farms as they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides providing locals with a convenient way to buy really fresh food, Record hopes to grow the local food economy. To that end, they consign goods from a dozen different vendors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to provide an outlet for small farms who might not have a quantity to sell into the grocery stores or maybe not even the quantity or the bandwidth in terms of time to go to a farmer&#8217;s market,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He partnered with a farmer who had fresh eggs and chicken as well as vendors offering their own beef, pork, goat cheese, granola, bread and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pay the vendors what has been determined that they&#8217;re owed, and the Farm Stop absorbs any theft or underpayment,\u201d Record says.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/market-your-market-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check out these 3 tips for marketing your farm&#8217;s products.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>How It Works<\/h2>\n<p>To date, things have gone relatively well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year we ran at a small loss,\u201d Record notes. \u201cThis year, we&#8217;re right on or maybe a little bit over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To determine its loss rate, the Farm Stop operates more like a traditional grocer than a roadside stand. Vendors bringing new products fill out intake forms for the items they wish to sell. Record then reconciles the value of any inventory that&#8217;s been removed with the amount of money brought in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing about an unattended farm stand with a cashbox is that there&#8217;s no way to make change,\u201d Record says. To simplify transactions, most prices are in amounts requiring even dollars or quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can also pay with <a href=\"https:\/\/venmo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venmo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He adds, \u201cOur policy is if you don&#8217;t have the right change, pay what you can and make it up next time. What tends to happen is people overpay rather than underpay.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Honest or Not?<\/h2>\n<p>Record mounted the Farm Stop cash box on the back wall inside the barn that houses the retail space. \u201cIt&#8217;s inside a part of the barn that gets closed up at night,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get asked all the time if we have security cameras up,\u201d Record admits. \u201cWe decided if it&#8217;s going to be an honor system, then it&#8217;s going to be a 100 percent honor system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to an NPR piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2012\/06\/11\/154750001\/the-psychology-of-the-honor-system-at-the-farm-stand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Psychology Of The Honor System At The Farm Stand,\u201d<\/a> trust can be as powerful at motivating our behavior as guilt. And we get a boost of good feelings when we feel trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Record says, \u201cIf someone is stealing food, then they probably need it&#8230;. We need to be able to absorb some of that if it occurs. And, honestly, we&#8217;re happy to do that if it means that someone who really needs food is getting it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72869\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72869\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Susan_GARDEN_STAND.png\" alt=\"farm stand stop honor system\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Susan_GARDEN_STAND-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Susan_GARDEN_STAND-623x360.png 623w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Susan_GARDEN_STAND-600x250.png 600w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Susan_GARDEN_STAND-433x250.png 433w, https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/Susan_GARDEN_STAND.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Brackney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Closer to Home<\/h2>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, hearing about the Bethel Lane Farm Stop motivated me to do something similar in my own neighborhood\u2014albeit on a much smaller scale.<\/p>\n<p>The main differences between my \u201cfarm stand\u201d and the one that inspired it? Although my stand has a slot for (optional) donations, everything is, technically, free. I live in a low-income area, and I purposely increased the size of my garden this year so I can share what I grow with anyone who needs it.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I only set up my stand a couple of times per week\u2014usually when I have extra goodies and the time to put them out. It has been an interesting experiment so far. My neighbors have picked up spare vegetable plants, herbs and cut flower bouquets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even found some donations from time to time with which I&#8217;ll likely buy more seeds, potting soil and other gardening gear so I can keep the fresh food coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social distancing and increased demand for fresh, local food could lead to a resurgence in self-service farm stops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":72868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Time To Try An &#039;Honor System&#039; Farm Stand? - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social distancing and more demand for fresh, local food could mean a resurgence in self-service farm stops. 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