Newsletter #15: Tangible Progress for The Hands that Feed Us
Tangible Progress at Last! Calling it crazy: Telling it like it is without losing people Up next: Wearing too many hats
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How feudal are our farmers?
There's a question that haunts me when I'm lying in bed pondering what The Hands that Feed Us is really about: Are we at risk of reverting to feudalism? My fear is that we will end up in a situation where land is owned by large, absent land-holders who demand a tax from the farmers who actually liv
Capitalism doesn't invest in farms is because capitalism for farming is broken
If farming worked the way ordinary businesses work, starting a farm would be a matter of making a business plan, approaching a bank or an investor, and coming to an arrangement about how ownership and profits are split between the farmer and the financial backers. This is the general way that we ima