The Week that began March 8th, we did 32 orders.

The next week we did 127 orders.

It's Garth Brown.

I own Caron Crest Farm, which is on about 200 acres in beautiful central New York.

I raise cows, sheep and pigs, and I sell directly to customers.

I own the farm with my wife, my brother, and my sister-in-law.

And are the four of you the primary labor then?

We are all the labor. We're about as small as a business can get. We do everything.

The animals brown raises are fed grass and raised in pastures.

His customers are individuals and families, not a wholesaler or distributor.

His typical customer is a health conscious east coaster interested in animal welfare,

willing to pay a bit more for their meat.

The unfortunate economic reality is that that still is a smaller slice of the populist than I would like.

But that slice got bigger about a month ago as the coronavirus pandemic set in,

as people went home and stayed home.

I think a lot of it is customers who are used to maybe cooking half their meals at home

and then eating out or ordering for the other half, opening their fridge and saying,

oh my goodness, I actually need food if I'm going to stay inside for the next two weeks or longer.

And that's also reflected in the balance of cuts that we've been selling.

We've been selling a lot more ground beef, sausage, sort of staple cuts,

and relatively fewer steaks and cuts people might buy for a special occasion.

I want to congratulate you for quadrupling your orders,

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