Farmers Needed!

5 comments to Farmers Needed!

  • Golden Ratio

    There is no need to create robot farming technology nor do we need to find more energy sources to solve this. The answer is as old as time and part of the very nature of our Universe.

    6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre – Urban Farm – Urban Homestead

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmTJkZy0rM

  • stevenr.f.

    Golden Ratio, you are so right. There is dignity in bending over and getting dirty. SO much food can be grown locally. I live in grass-seed country. Grass? Grass is technically a weed. We devote acres and acres of land, fantastic river-bottom, to growing weeds. Meanwhile the elderly farmers who own the land can’t get out from under it because their kids don’t want it, inheritance taxes are overly burdensome, and generally the land is valued too high for people to be able to buy it, make payments, and take a living off the land as it is. This system isn’t working, but if we can get this land broken up into useable plots, high-intensity farming using non-industrialized farm management can give fantastic yields without dumping massive amounts of petrochemical fertilizer and killing every organism in the soil with Roundup. We’ve just got to make the leap from one system to the other. It is going to be painful at best, but it will happen because in the end what we have is going to collapse.

  • Golden Ratio

    Hello Steven,

    Looks like the solution is recognizing the individual as preferential to the collective. The Universe is bountiful made of unlimited energy yet the collective screams … “there is not enough to go around.” Just a another part of the Big Lie.

    Douglas

  • Fort Mac Flatlander

    Unfortunately, the current issue with starvation and malnourishment is not current yields and total seeded acres, but the cost of getting the produce to the end user. We currently can produce enough calories using local organic methods, but everyone cannot pay for the food. The other elephant in the room is the fact that half the food goes to waste enroute and in storage before the end users can get to it. Comments?

  • Kyle

    Good points guys! I think the solutions will come from individuals in their own communities. The system we have now is unsustainable and will collapse and new ideas will be needed.

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