special nod to @AdamWolkoff for pointing me to that photo of tenant farmer's tiny-house portable shack trailer
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Permission to edit this into something that's considered HS appropriate? My intro students just finished learning "feudalism was almost everywhere production ag was" and we're tackling US ag history next, muahaha.
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Thanks for the informative article! Do you have ideas about what sort of policies would create better options?
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Here's the thing, we do have a lot of bad farm policy. But it's also just a scapegoat for mediocre farmers. There's absolutely nothing in our current policy that keeps people from farming competently today. We should be focused on building organizations that farm better.
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I talk about this a lot but Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, while it is about "the human condition", is also more specifically about the lies involved in the tenant/landlord relationship on a small farm
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Vanya's final screaming meltdown "All those years - all that work - and it was all for YOU Every hard winter, every backbreaking harvest - for YOU You took ALL OF IT What do I have to show for my life? NOTHING And I've been calling you my FRIEND - you're my WORST ENEMY"
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The Oxbow by Thomas Cole. One of my favorites.
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Omg- I remember talking to you about the New York Padroons- and this ish was still a thing! And yes- the whole bought out family farm is a total fabrication.
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You mentioned problems with intentional communities & cooperatives. That small farms don't work w/out outside income or exploitative relationships. Do you think small farms can work in the US? Is this large farms pushing down prices as to make small farming impossible?
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I guess I am asking because much of the US food system is exploitative, vertically integrated, with high land concentration compared to the EU. Does that intrinsically create a competitive environment for which doing it without exploitation is extremely difficult.
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