Monday, September 10, 2012

Learning economics through agriculture

CJA's Agriculture Task Force sells our produce to community members.  In the process, students learn the basics of running a business.
Alzario and Jamari study ATF financial data

"Expenses for the Task Force is money going out.  We have to buy chicken feed.  Our sources of income are eggs and our farmers' market."
--Alzario

"Our current balance is -$30.00 because we had to pay for the chicken feed.  I think this will change next week because we are having a farmers' market and we don't have to buy chicken feed for a while."
--Dakota

After these statements were written, we made $19.00 at our Friday farmers' market.  Here's a picture of some of the produce we sold:

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