Family Farms Aren’t Coming Back - Ironwood Organics | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep19
Recorded in Brockville, ON
What happens when the land that feeds us becomes increasingly difficult for the next generation of farmers to af
What we're learning
Family Farms Aren’t Coming Back | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep19
Recorded in Brockville, ON
How do we keep small farms viable in an era of climate change and rising farmland prices? Our latest discussion
Sales Are Down - Heartbeet Farm | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep18
Recorded in Brockville, ON
What happens when a local farm has plenty of food to sell, but fewer people are buying it?
At Heartbeet Farm in
Sales Are Down | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep18
Heartbeet Farm - Kanata, ON
Why are fewer people buying from local farms? Our latest discussion explores the pressures facing small-scale f
Who Gets to Farm? - Just Food | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep17
Just Food - Ottawa, ON
Who gets to farm when farmland is too expensive for farmers to afford — and what happens when we take the market out
Who Gets to Farm? | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep17
Just Food - Gloucester, ON
Who gets to farm when farmland is too expensive for farmers to afford — and what happens when we take the market
The Dark Side of Romance - Pollen Nation Farm | The Hands That Feed Us: On Tour - Ep16
What happens when the passion for farming, the community built around food, and the realities of making a living from it don’t quite add up?
How to invest romantically
Despite the title, no, this post isn’t about how to find commitment with your significant other. I’m talking about financial, not emotional investment, and I’m talking about the romance of believing things into existence, not your love life.
What does romance have to do with our economy?
I believed we could build our farm together by being good at business and I didn’t realize she needed me to be good at romance.
What makes "The Farming Lifestyle" worth it?
As I've learned more about how farmers live, my thinking about the problem has shifted. I've grown. And I've realized that focusing on how much money farmers make misses the bigger picture.
How feudal are our farmers?
There's a question that haunts me when I'm lying in bed pondering what The Hands that Feed Us is really about: Are we at risk of reverting to feudalism?
Why Food Insecurity isn't a Subset of Poverty
Money may be a possible solution for starvation, but no matter how hungry you are, you still can't eat it.
Capitalism doesn't invest in farms is because capitalism for farming is broken
The cost of land is a big reason why the capitalist is necessary in the first place. In business terms, land is a capital cost: It's a big, up-front cost that has to be paid out of the farm's profits over time, but it only needs to be purchased once.
What the Stats on Farmland Prices Don't Tell You
The story I tell — that the average farmer will be dead by the time the average farm is paid for — is a classic example of lying with statistics.