Re:Rise of the High-Profit Micro Farm (2016)
by nadezhda18 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @03:34PM
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>> a few people sharing knowledge they've acquired
I also failed to see much of new knowledge in this article.
it is not very clear from the article how these people managed to achieve such high profits. Because of a big demand for organic food? And due to their proximity to a large metro area?
As of the technology they are using, it is not that special... my parents used to have an extensive vegetable garden (as a consequence of living through a very hungry period of the USSR collapse). When I was still living with them, about 20 years ago, they already had these technologies: walk-behind tractors, vegetable pairings, composting, hand tools. They could feed 4-5 ppl family but that was it. I remember it required A LOT of manual work non-stop all year around. We, their grown-up kids, were highly suggesting them to stop brother and simply go to the local market and buy the food there. Pretty much the same price, much less labor.
I want to say people left farming for a reason and it looks like now the new generation either does not know or forgot how hard it is to grow food.
it is not very clear from the article how these people managed to achieve such high profits. Because of a big demand for organic food? And due to their proximity to a large metro area?
As of the technology they are using, it is not that special... my parents used to have an extensive vegetable garden (as a consequence of living through a very hungry period of the USSR collapse). When I was still living with them, about 20 years ago, they already had these technologies: walk-behind tractors, vegetable pairings, composting, hand tools. They could feed 4-5 ppl family but that was it. I remember it required A LOT of manual work non-stop all year around. We, their grown-up kids, were highly suggesting them to stop brother and simply go to the local market and buy the food there. Pretty much the same price, much less labor.
I want to say people left farming for a reason and it looks like now the new generation either does not know or forgot how hard it is to grow food.