A hundred years ago, a family could make a living — and a life — off forty acres of land. Today, not likely. Today’s agricultural realities make the small farm a footnote in the history of rural America.But nothing ever really goes away. Life evolves. The land is still with us, but our relationship with it has evolved (and clearly must continue to evolve).

The small farm is still with us, too, it’s just that the farming most of us do is not agricultural, it’s cybercultural, and the labor is not physical, it’s intellectual. (more…)