We didn't buy eggs from a grocery store for a year.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2020. A pay cut, a baby, a folding table of houseplants at the Saturday market. One neighbor had lettuce, one had meat, one had eggs. Our half-acre couldn't feed a cow — but because we could trade cape gooseberries and vanilla orchids, our neighbors took care of us, and we took care of them.

When the world was told to shut down, our neighbors were just getting started.

Then we moved home to the Northwest, and the dream got interrupted.

The Portland market was full of houseplant stands. We sold the house. We pivoted to sourdough — Josh's 2016 apartment hobby — and Emma started teaching people to keep a starter alive. The boys decorate the loaves. We still can't afford the big garden. So we're building the market that makes it possible for a lot of families at once.

Vine & Grove is a digital farmers market. Providers keep every dollar of their price. Neighbors add a 10% Community Investment that runs the market and pays the community that hosts it. Nothing ships; you pick up from a person. And Emma is Provider number one.