A Simple Fix For Farming

The title above is the same as the New York Times article it comes from. We all eat. What we eat matters, to us, the farmers that raise it and the planet it's grown on.

The article talks about being able to grow enough food to feed us all without poisoning our land (and eventually ourselves) to do it.

The sentence that really sticks out to me is:

"In short, there was only upside — and no downside at all — associated with the longer rotations. There was an increase in labor costs, but remember that profits were stable. So this is a matter of paying people for their knowledge and smart work instead of paying chemical companies for poisons."

Paying for people instead of poison. Doesn't that say it all?

If you're interested in exploring a farm already doing what the article suggests, check out the Polyface Farms.