Rather than producing the crops that local communities want and need, large-scale industrial agriculture relies on government subsidies, wastes massive amounts of food (According to the National Resources Defense Council, approximately 20% of produce is never even harvested) and pushes corn and soy in the name of profit, ignoring health and environmental consequences. Value, in this system, is reduced to dollars rather than defined holistically—taking into account the quality of life of the farmers, their communities and their ecosystems.
We want to be able to produce food for 200 people on one acre of active cultivation. The farm can produce more food on less than ⅓ the acreage most farms generally use. We would like to put our minds together and offer a way to put our community and our actual needs at the center of food production by combining the “volume of mass production with the focus and flexibility of craft production.”