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.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Aren't these the farms of the true Americans, that most perfectly represent the American Spirit, with a culture and ethos to which we should all aspire but which immoral city dwellers can never fathom?

sEtting the bitter sarcasm aside, if people can't align their farming with reality, what shall we all eat?

[hitchhiker]

we'll eat food increasingly produced by massive corporations as cheaply as possible with overwhelmingly exploited labour from poor people with no other options :(

[minoanmiss]

And now I have a bad taste in my mouth, both figuratively and literally. :(

[hitchhiker]

yeah :( it's a hard trend to fight, and rugged individualism is not going to do it