Want to make an easy $100 and put some limited edition seasonal bean burgers in your freezer? Read on.

Things are good in Bean Crafter Land. Perhaps too good.  Growth in demand for our winsome craftings has officially outstripped our humble kitchen and team’s capacity. What’s an aging one-year old company to do? Two banks and one leasing company have essentially told us that in light of our brief history, our consistently increasing sales amounts to little more than…well…a pile of beans.

Pile of beans...complete with Crafters.

Good news really. Being ‘unbankable’ has placed us in the happy position of further aligning ourselves with our community (and alternative modes of business) in fun and fancy new ways.

Here’s what I mean, and where you come in:

In order to raise the $15k capital to get us to our next economy of scale we’re soliciting two opportunities to accrue value for our neighbors and fuel for our company:

1.) You can pre-purchase $100 worth of burgers and receive a bonus four-pack of a limited run mid-summer burger as a thank you. This extra capital will be put towards our wholesale grocery list that entails more than seven-times the quantity of local veggies we purchased last year for our Fall and Winter production.

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2.) You can invest $1,000 in your friendly neighborhood Bean Crafters and receive $100 on your principle 14 months hence. A better return than any stock market index, let alone CD (and these days I’d argue with less risk). The math/return stays the same whether you scale your investment up or down. These dollars are slated for kitchen equipment (forming machine, new oven, food processor upgrade, root cellar and storage infrastructure).

The timeline is, well, ASAP. We need to raise this all one way or another by the end of August to stay viable–or at least vivacious. I’ll be posting our progress at the end of each week as well as a list of folks who’ve partnered up with us.

I’m sure there’ll be questions, so feel free to email me at joseph.bossen@gmail.com or call 802-325-2144. If you’re ready to chip in, please send checks or love notes to PO Box 836, Pittsfield VT 05762. You can also bring them to either the Rutland Downtown Farmers Market or New Amsterdam Market.

We’ll be adding a PayPal option to our website later on this week.

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This is all about you asking and us doing our damnedest to deliver. It looks like to do so involves asking you in return. Funny how demand begets demand… lovely how auspicious that can be when it’s energy being cycled through our community all the while.

Lest we forget, more than fifty cents on the dollar we receive goes directly to the farmers we depend on. Versus less than ten cents through mainstream products and marketplaces.

Join us in putting our money where our mouth is: this soil.