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  • From: "Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>
  • To: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>, "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Populations
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 00:27:37 -0400

Mitch I can answer part of that.  Traditional farmers do their best to send their children to school to give them a good education.  In school farming is looked down on and in college they are told that they can't make a living at it.  I know that from personal experience.
Norma

On 5/23/08, E. E. Mitchamore Jr <emitch@att.net> wrote:
But why do "traditional" farmers feel that they can no longer continue with that tradition?  What I read most often is that they move to the cities "to escape the grinding poverty of subsistence farming".
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
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