<< why don't the small farmers start their own mini businesses...>>
Bobby, on another thread I also touched on this thru exposure on a
family farm, but I have another simply approach to explain my view.
Go to any small family farm that functions the way they did back when
all farms were that way. You will get a sense of good people wanting
to live outside the crowd not only for the wide open space, but unspoken
but felt strongly is a desire NOT to live under the conditions presented
by the full spectrum of people living together in a tight area like a city.
Extreme case is the big city with extremes of wealth and proverty,
and good people and bad, and law abiding and criminal activity.
Live on a farm as I have, not as a visitor or short time guest, and even if
the workers you meet have all those characteristics found in the city,
you will find that only hard clean respectful activity is allowed because
a farm will not survive unless respect for all things are executed.
Any present day small farm still functioning like the above will exist at
one small step from failure. Only those family farms that go the route
of big farms will survive, but that means cut throat competition and hurt
if possible other farmers, and if they need help, don't. All those things
that made life of a small farm shine as an example of how people should
interact with nature and others, must be denied (aka corrupted).
For small farms to join together into a big group is one step away from
each farm loosing that which made it a life style, and becomeing like
a life in the city.
They may appear to be naive and easily con'ed, but what price must be
payed by us who obtain the skills needed to live in the city. At the end
of each long hard day the farmer has a peace of mind rarely found in the
city, whereas the city person must ready for the next day's struggle.
doug |
