The Accidental Agrarian

Aspiring to the Agrarian Life

Serf’s Up

Podchef | January 23, 2009

Elsewhere, I have written: Will this decade see the end of Agrarian Farming? Certainly I am not the only writer, farmer, eater-of-things-grown to pose this question in the past 20, 30, or 40 years, but for some reason this year, at this time, it seems like the cards are stacked against the small farmer and [...]

The End of “More”

Podchef | January 7, 2009

I was reading the other day when I came across the phrase “producers attempt to make up their losses “on volume”” and it struck me that so much of the current mess we are in comes from this notion that overproduction–that “more”–is needed in order to make a gain;¬† to make things right in the [...]