In September of 2010, I took the time to write a blog that looked at the value of one of the many vegetable crops we were raising that year. There were a few motivations for doing this at the time. First, I would frequently assess whether we were growing the right amount of any given crop - and one of the ways to do that was to figure out if a crop was contributing financially to the farm in some fashion. But, I also realized that boiling things down to financial numbers was both more complex than it seemed and it was not the only way to assess what we were growing.