Farmscape service staff will now be carrying a new device -- a produce scale. With these lightweight, digital scales we will be weighing the produce we harvest for our clients to track our results and thus better understand how our techniques affect yields.

The model we purchased is the Jennings CJ 4000 (pictured).  We did not opt for legally defensible scales, the premium pricing was beyond our means. If not "legally precise" we'll settle for "very precise."

I should make clear that here at Farmscape we sell service instead of food, so much like a CSA we make no yield guarantees. Our clients are the farm owners and we are the hired help, so they bear the risks of inclement weather, blight, or swarming locusts.

Nonetheless, we are expert hired help and we care quite a bit about our harvest results -- we do all we can to cultivate impressive quantities of top quality produce. Our service staff even get a little competitive about the gardens they maintain, so the scales will also be a way for us to keep score.  You can expect more on this topic soon.