“It comes out to $22 a week for all these veggies,” says Ray Young, owner of Next Barn Over Farm in Hadley, describing their small CSA share sized to feed a couple. “Nowadays with inflation, I don't know what you can buy from the grocery store for $22 a week."

Next Barn Over is a 50-acre certified organic vegetable farm that they (Young uses they/them pronouns) founded in 2009. Shoppers can find them at the Amherst Farmers Market on Saturdays, and find their produce at the River Valley Coop, in Real Pickles products, or in other local stores. But the core of their farm is their CSA (community supported agriculture) program, which feeds locals near Hadley and Springfield and even Bostonians via delivery boxes.