Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

Thinking About the Land 3 i: The Farmer as a New Role in the 18th-Century

Farming goes back millennia, right? At least to the ‘agricultural revolution?’ Well, only if we use the word ‘farming’ loosely as we often do today to mean cultivating the land…

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Puzzles about the family farm

On his blog Applied Mythology, Steve Savage has a nice post on farmers in the US and Canada, with graphs showing how their numbers have dwindled and how efficient they…

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Who is going to farm?

I spend quite a bit of time reading the writings of people concerned with food, and yet more time talking with them. A constant refrain is that we need more…

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