Looking a psychology behind farming.
September 1, 2006
5 Reasons To Keep Farms: The case for agricultural protection and keeping this sector strong and healthy.
Changing Face of Kenyen Road: Development on a beautiful rural and free dirt road.
Getting Your Hands Dirty: Farming and forestry are dirty but rewarding jobs.
How the West Was Lost: A look at the battle for open space in Albany County.
In Exburbia, Suburbia and Urbania: While our landscapes are diverse they are all special.
Irrational Farmers: How the irrational nature of farming can be benifical to our lives.
Suburbia: Greatest Threat to the Environment: When people are distant from the environment they forget about it.
Weak Economy Protecting Rural Life: Why job growth is bad for open space and the environment.
Wide Open Spaces: A short essay on the need to protect and enhance our rural areas.
There are many reasons people engage in small-scale agriculture non-professionally besides the simply rational need to create food, fiber, and energy projects. They include things like:
It's an experience, a lifestyle, a personality. Or at least that's how I see it from my perspective of being a college student riding around the countryside on my bike and exploring the world through my studies.
Such notions need apply only to small scale organic farmers. Even for the most strident rationalist with their industrial scale farm, it seems that such factors play a role in why they continue to remain in agriculture and not go into a more profitable field.
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