the high cost of small family farms

[hitchhiker]

https://medium.com/sylvanaquafarms/small-family-farms-arent-the-answer-742b6684857e

America’s oldest farmers — indigenous people — generally regarded the soil as a commons and worked it cooperatively. Many indigenous nations, along with a number of religious and ethnic communities, continue the practice to this day.

But the notion of the private farm, be it a pair of greenhouses or tens of thousands of acres, is what came to dominate American farming, and it’s taken particular hold among the farm to table cohort.
We in that cohort trade the benefits of agrarian collectivism — living wages, retirement, a sane workload, profitability, survivability, and the capacity to make a game-changing impact in the marketplace… for rugged independence: complete autonomy in decision-making, the ability to grow what/where/how we want, set our prices as we please, sell wherever we choose, and work ourselves into the ground.