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  • From: "Jill Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Cell phones and things related
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:21:57 -0500

THanks, Pat - I will keep my eyes open for it. So, that model has been
televised - we need to make a show that shows rotational grazing, and/or an
organic farmer - strategies that help farmers survive without killing
themselves with work, or an on farm small organic cheese plant - or a CSA,
or any number of the many innovative ways that farmers and growers have
found to make it in this economic climate.
Jill

Pat wrote:
There was actually a spectacularly good show precisely about
the hard life of today's small farmer.

It was on PBS, a mini-series, and called 'The Farmer's
Wife'.

It was really sad, because it was true - a documentary
following the life of one particular farming couple in
Nebraska.

They listened to The Powers That Be, and got further and
further into debt. Borrow to expand, borrow to plant your
crops, borrow for fertilizer, borrow to buy new equipment:
every time they turned around, the USDA or the local banker
or the man's parents or someone or other was pushing them to
borrow, borrow, borrow.

Their answer to this was to work harder and harder until
eventually the man was working about 20 hours a day, 7 days
a week, the woman was working full-time off-farm and helping
on the farm, and their marriage fell apart under the strain.

Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
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