Wednesday, October 22, 2008

What's organic farmland worth? Or is it a pearl without price?
Gene Logsdon, OrganicToBe.org

I and many thousands of small farmers are the village idiots of agriculture. We farm because we like to make little paradises out of our land while growing good food on it. What we make as a return on investment in money doesn’t matter as crucially as it does for the dime-takers. We often choose the nickel because we have learned that taking the dime means servitude to commodity markets and agribusiness giants over which we have no control.

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