Once upon a time farms were both productive and clean. They were unspecialized, and grew a variety of fruits and vegetables while raising several kinds of animals. Indeed, it was a simpler and better time.
Reasonably, a small farm would be waste-free, as almost everything on a farm could be recycled or naturally composted back into the field. Bugs and bees were welcomed as part of the process, and on those rare occasions that bugs turned pesky, natural remedies could take care of them quickly.
Over the last fifty to sixty years, American farmers have basically been machined and industrialized out of existence. "Farmer" no longer appears as a job on the American census. Instead, the work of feeding the over 300 million people in the U.S. has fallen to a very small number of individuals.
The farm itself has changed almost completely. Crops may still require dirt, seeds and water but nearly everything else on the farm, from tools to grow-calendars to fertilizer and feed, to the very mission statement that each farm must ultimately adhere to, has been adjusted, revolutionized and remade for a growing and greedy and increasingly obtuse population.
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