many in rural white areas grow gardens each year and always have.
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and would be nice to see more gardens
The thing is, it can be a good thing that the U.S. grows less of its own food
It's really a question of how many gains you want to make economically and how you want to engage in division of labor
Because it's simple economics that if you can say work as a programmer for double the money you can farming, then if you outsource the food production somewhere else while you're a programmer, you make more money and everyone can kind of "win" with there being higher productivity
however, this doesn't work out purely because we don't live in a perfect world. If we didn't grow any of our own food, and the people we get our food from one day decided they don't want to sell to us, we would face food shortages.
So I suspect there may be some conversations to be had about the tradeoffs between gains from division of labor versus security of doing some of these things ourselves
It's an open question of how much risk people want to take
If you think growing food industrially the quantity goes up and the nutritional content goes down. There can be a happy balance between the industrial food producers, small farms, those wanting to produce a cash crop to those only wanting better food/ food security for their immediate family.
If you go all in with absolute industrial farming the quality of goods goes down dramatically, and people are viewed as moveable economic units. Quality of life goes down.
Food sovereignty breeds National sovereignty. This applies back down to cultural cohesion. The price of cheap food and cheap labor leads to bringing in outside peoples and influences.
With the advancement in agriculture and permaculture homestead and small farm holdings [5-10 acres] can become more productive. We are no longer in the age of subsistence farming techniques alone. [Besides, 100acre and bigger holding of any quality will need to be passed down within families. Those holding are being bought up by foreign countries and multinational corps]
Amen.