Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[yarrow@sfo.com]

paul wrote,
> Yet I've read the typical farmer's return on investment today is about 2%.
> You get a better return on a savings account.

I agree about the need to spread intensive organic no-till and 
rebuild soil, but ....

I've heard that grocery stores net only 2 percent profit. Most things 
I do make no profit, and in fact "cost," and I don't really take ROI 
(in terms of dollars, that is) into account when I decide to do 
anything that I can think of. Perhaps I'm an outlier, though.

In any case, I think the way to make farming appealing to the next 
generation is to promote the positive aspects of the lifestyle, 
harken back to Jeffersonian democracy and the agrarian ideal (need 
background music here). I'd guess that anyone who cares about ROI 
wouldn't be interested in farming anyway.

Oh, and outlaw land speculation so that those of us who don't care 
mostly about profit and ROI can afford to buy land.