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That is probably because the farmers hired somebody one time to make a website which they don't have the skill to maintain, but they know how to use Instagram.

• Blackthorn 4y ago
  Well, yeah, I know why they do it and it's a rational decision for them. It's really a condemnation of our own evolution as an industry and the incentives involved that it ended up that way.
  • badpun 4y ago
    On the other hand, 20 years ago such farm would not have any internet presence at all, not to mention detailed and up to date inventory info. Instagram et al made it possible.
    • hef19898 4y ago
      20 years ago there was no need for any of this. You went to tje farm, dod your groccery shopping and tgat was it. Or you didn't go there. Either way, farms did exist back then just fine. Who on earth would expect a local farm shop to be on par with Amazon when it comes to inventory and availability data online?
      • Blackthorn 4y ago
        My local farm does already have that information, like, "blueberry picking suspended, waiting a week for ripening". Like, I don't have to expect them to add inventory information, they're already doing it because that's how they communicate with their customers. It's just only available behind the garden walls. It's an indictment of us as an industry that it turned out that way because that was the convenient way to do it instead of a more open and user friendly way like a website. Twenty years ago you just called them for the information, and it's way better for them to broadcast it than have a hundred 1:1 conversations.