The family farm is a romantic notion - one grounded in the roots of the past.
Such farms fed and populated the world until the twentieth century.
There is an organization and a movement called biodynamic farming that historically comes close to building a process to create a sustainable farm.
The act and responsibility of creation is one of the most rewarding jobs we can give children.
This is a good website on no-till methods for the small farmer Permaculture is an agricultural system that integrates human activity with natural surroundings, which can create highly efficient self-sustaining ecosystems.
I read a comment today on another essay that struck home: If you read Rene Girard, or about how in primitive societies, a literal scapegoat is chosen to carry all the tensions and hatreds and be sacrificed or driven into the desert to create something approximating unity in a community, you might see that this ritual is perhaps at work here.
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