This paper analyses the production of commodity and non-commodity values among small-scale farmers in the Gara mountains of Iraq, Kurdistan. The study is based on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2018 among small-scale farmers in Kurdistan, Iraq. Exploring capitalism in this site through an ethnographic analysis, I highlight the ways in which the production of non-commodity values is central to the reproduction of life in the villages of Kurdistan, Iraq. Thereby, I argue that while it is important to study commodity values when it comes to an anthropological study of capitalism, there is a potential danger, especially in the Iraqi context, of capitalism determining the parameters of what is worthwhile to examine. Investigating the Iraqi context, I show how since the start of the second Gulf War in 1991 and the subsequent sanctions period of 1991-2003, agriculture has been pushed into the sphere of non-wage labor, thus outside national circuits of capital. As this economic development has led to a marginal private sector, that is a marginal production of commodities, I stress the importance of incorporating the production of non-commodity values in the analysis of labor relations in Iraq. Non-commodity values are generally created in what Feminist-Marxist theory has conceptualized as the household, a sphere of non-wage labor that is mostly ascribed to women. Interrogating the essentially wage less agricultural labor of my interlocuters, I show how villagers produce life-sustaining values other than monetary values, even though this is in relation to shifts of capital. Thereby, I illustrate how farmers agricultural labor reproduces and stems on non-monetary values such as ancestral ties to the land, the reproduction of a farmers’ identity through tilling the land, the sharing and gift giving of harvest. For Iraq, with little commodity production via labor, it is especially in this sphere of non-wage labor, characteristic of much of Iraq’s small-scale agriculture, where capitalism manifests itself in various ways.