“Today, agricultural acreage on Lopez Island costs nearly 50 times what I paid for it in 1967. Agricultural economists project that by the middle of the century the average cost of farmland in the U.S. will make food production other than for commodities unaffordable. Of course, wages have also risen, but what new farmer could afford to pay nearly 1 million dollars for our 22-acre farm and survive economically? Our personal solution to the problem of land access for young farmers has been to remove our own farm from the market altogether. We gifted it to The Farmers’ Land Trust, acting from “ultimate concern” to “provide for the next generation,” as envisioned in Aristotelian economics.” pages 41 – 42
Repairing the Earth: Fifty Years of Biodynamic Farming for Spiritual,Physical, and Economic Healt
