New farm productivity AND more agricultural jobs?
Agriculture has been losing jobs for decades.
Could things start going the other way?
Amidst the increasing heat and scarcity of water in California, a farmer in Sebastopol has managed to grow $100,000 of food per acre, using one-tenth the normal water, creating four-foot deep topsoil, and getting 5 – 7 crops a year – without plowing, weeding, or spraying.
Reading this feature-length article about his work and the principles behind it, I instantly became more hopeful of the chances for a new agriculture that will thrive despite the warmer and dryer America ahead.
And the market value of crops from these farms supports the local skilled workers needed to produce them.