As many of you know, there really aren't too many organic and environmentally compatible companies that offer MLM packages, while there are a few that look promising. One company that I recently had contact with seemed very interesting and I decided I would like to post a small profile and ask for some opinions by anyone else that finds them interesting. The name of the company is called Organic Acres, and they have offered some very viable solutions to the way many of us have been forced to eat until now.

Hi Ginger, I'm also heavily into organics and when I first heard about Organic Acres I got really excited, unfortunately I'm starting to hear some fairly negative comments about the company. I tried very hard to find out more, including emailing customer service but I haven't recieved a single reply. The concept of essentially renting a lot and having your food of choice organically grown is absolutely awesome, but from what I gather that's not what's happening here. In many cases people are promised delivery by a specific date, which doesn't happen, they are promised specific foods, which end up not working out either, and they end up with virtually no updates on their harvests, let alone cam footage.

I don't feel confident to spend whatever amount of money these guys want and not even have someone to contact if I want to know how many tomatos I'll be getting in my shipment...that's not a good way for a single guy, let alone a family to plan their monthly food needs. I'm thinking that the concept of a "lot" is wordplay. What I mean is, these guys have rented so many acres, and they probably have rows of tomatoes, rows of cabbage, rows of (insert whatever food here), and they simply give the customers their portion of what they order. In that case, why not just find an organic farm and by your food there? Plus, lets say the MLM part of it is a major success, well how many acres are these people going to be able to acquire when it really takes off?

I guess I'm wondering for all the awesomeness this would entail, if this particular company is really legit...

Agreed,

I too thought the concept has merit, but having leased a full garden, I was totally disappointed in what I ended up with first growing season, practically nothing I supposedly planted, so not what I expected.  I know all about growing organic, or any garden, and given I lost my whole prior seasons tomatoe harvest due to early and late blite, I gave up my own garden to try Organic Acres.

Given the excessively wet season, I didn't get one single tomato once again, very disappointed since I love tomatoes, and can and freeze as well as make my own salsa, so now this is back to back years with no tomatoes.  Granted, you cannot blame anyone but monther nature, but with no value from my garden other than a few shipments of other produce which I had ordered only because I was getting nothing, it was a total waste of money, pure and simple.  I was in it for the so called profit sharing on top of whatever my garden produced, but I doubt company made any profits, so it looks like it will be a total loss at this point.

Good concepts are hard to find, and I should know, I research them all, and evaluate most personally if they meet my trend analysis which Organic Acres did.  Organic produce is a booming industry, and prices are up and up and away, so it made perfect sense, but like others, with no customer service to speak of, nothing more than a worthless webinar each week, sorry, but that is less than I expect from any company. 

I am hoping the second year will produce better results, and knowing start ups always have issues, I will remain patient.  With hundred of people I brought in, I am stuck, and not that I am making much money, I am not, but this was never about getting rich, it was about saving money on organic foods, so maybe things will work out better this year if mother nature allows. lol Now if they can only improve shipping, it may just be worth it down the road.

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I was kind of hoping I was wrong about this one. I am not in the place financially to try all these plans, but glad you have some hands on Mike. At least this puts the hunger to delve a bit to rest deeper. Maybe some new company will take the concept and actually run with it the way it should be run, and I'll get such a service after all, a man can dream.

There is no chance at all? :(

Ok, but maybe you guys can explain something to me since I'm not really an expert on network marketing companies. Is this a scam, or is it just that some kind of problem or problems have stopped it from working out as planned? I am big into researching independent living, as in "off the grid", via organic farming communities, trading systems and more efficient self sustaining ways of producing energy. When I heard of this concept, I thought wow! great idea, and I though for certain this would take off like crazy. I was so close to giving them a try but it just seems like it hasn't been working out well. I will be very upset on a person level if this is because it is scam related, as it makes it even harder for a legitimate company to do it correctly.

There is a ton of land in the United States, lots of people to feed and a food industry that has been declining rapidly during the last 50 years, and mainstream food is just a notch below dangerous. Mike, if you don't mind me asking, can you tell me what you did get, in contrast to what you were supposed to get? Did they give you a specific list of guaranteed items or is it like a random selection? There has got to be a way to make a business like this work, especially for us, since we are working on building a natural home that is literally made out of tires, sandbags and discarded windows, and it will be a part of a larger community that consists of 4 families so far. I was hoping this company might be the way to go while we get set up. Does anyone know any companies that are like them?