Market Farming

[Robert Farr <rbfarr AT erols.com>]

Of course! there is destruction of rural society!  Just look at the
quality of people coming to replace the farm community - sub/urban
mommies in their mini-vans, speeding on country roads; up-tight necktied
dads hurrying through the countryside to a job 90 minutes away.  The
rural community becoming a bedroom community.  The friendliness - a nod,
a smile, a wave - disappearing or already gone.  All the money leaving
the community - no longer begin used to support your neighbors, but
spent in grocery stores with offices in different states.  Out-of-state
developers buying up farmland then not giving a whit about the pollution
they generate, the eco-systems they destroy, the watersheds they ruin,
the dark skies they eliminate with their "safety" lights.

C'mon - of course the rural society has been poisoned.  Farmers - and
unpaved land - are looked on as the underclass, beneath civilized
society ("I mean, those people have DIRT under their nails!").  The
nouveau riche can't understand why folks in the country don't aspire to
their lifestyle, so they denigrate it (or pave over it).

Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw in Vermont:  "Welcome to Vermont.
Now get the hell out."  Same sentiment to those city folks - don't ruin
our communities.  But they're doing it any/way.

--
Robert Farr
(540) 668-7160
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