Rebecca Gilbert

Everyone Has a Role in Growing Farms

Within a healthy system of food produc tion and distribution, farms would not need “saving.” However, as it is, we are losing farmland (and the corresponding skills,) at alarming rates. (In Massachusetts, about 20 per cent in the last 25 years.) The traditional system of inherited family farms is not sufficient.

 

 

 

Within a healthy system of food produc tion and distribution, farms would not need “saving.” However, as it is, we are losing farmland (and the corresponding skills,) at alarming rates. (In Massachusetts, about 20 per cent in the last 25 years.) The traditional system of inherited family farms is not sufficient.

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