If you view the core of the nation as a Family unit Gardens make more sense. Not everyone is meant to garden. The larger family or neighbors can grow more to fill a niche or grow a cash crop. Most can garden or program. Only a few will excel at this pursuit. Quality of life goes up.
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]
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.