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On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 06:42 PM, philip sauber wrote:

> From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
> Date: Thu Dec 18, 2003  06:42:58 PM US/Eastern
> To: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>, "North American Fruit 
> Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc:
> Subject: [NAFEX] Corporate farms
> Reply-To: mrtejas@lycos.com, North American Fruit Explorers 
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> The myth of the small farm died in the 1930s after tractors became 
> widely used.

This thread is getting way off topic. But I do want to say that the 
small farm ain't dead yet. Some small farms are doing pretty well, and 
there are more in this area than there were ten or twenty years ago. 
(This includes full-time farms, as well as some supported by outside 
jobs.) It's not, of course, farming the way you describe; people are 
switching to specialty crops, direct marketing, and cooperative 
marketing. Many of these farms do grow a lot of their own food.

-- Rivka