Sometimes doing the little things helps small farmers succeed. Over the past 30 years small farms have died off and switched out with larger Agri corps. While these larger companies have value in feeding the world and providing diversity of food there is benefit to developing farm to table type approaches. We saw this during Covid when we noticed that the food supply could be at risk because policies skewed the system in a way that limited local food growth and consumption.
I think we learned from the situation and small farming should be a full or part-time business option for the young as much as starting a store or doing something else. Farmer markets contribute about a billion dollars and with the right approach could easily double and triple (I would doubt the stats capture it all as its lots of cash and roadside sales.) See Farmer Market 2022
This farmer market is on Saturdays in St. Matthews KY. You may find one near you at Louisville Local Foods and Farmer Market KY. The last picture is my experimental non water and non pesticide box garden in MI. Yield would be better if I arranged and grew the right kind of plants but it worked and I got some good stuff out of it.
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