If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

Earthworms will dance

My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.