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This is how I see all of the "I'm going to move to the country and grow my own food" crowd.
They're essentially glorifying subsistence farming, a lifestyle that humans have collectively been trying to escape since we invented agriculture.
Peaches come from a can
They were put there by a man
in a factory downtown.
And if I had my little way
I'd eat peaches everyday.
I've lived in a subsistence farming community. You know who doesn't glorify and romanticize it? Farmers.
Don't get me wrong, hobby farming often is the best of both worlds, and smallholder farming and gardening fucking make life 20,000 times better. But making the jump to letting your whole life depend on rainfall just to eat is madness.
We as a species have 50 centuries of receipts to tell us that subsistence farmers eventually lose the game in a long enough time line. It only takes 1 season for that to ruin lives and communities.
i mean the food is better when you picked it that morning. but like, i can pay someone else to pick it that morning.
Yeah, I joined a CSA so someone gets money to buy the machinery in order to farm at a larger scale than they could have on their own and I get fresh fruits, vegetables and honey periodically.
If this statement appeals to you (it does to me) it might mean you need to find more hobbies that keep you outdoors. (I have and it's great!)