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FSFS #104

When it comes to this world of farming small, what is this world?

Is it a bunch of small farms each operating independently?

For the most part, I think the answer is yes.

Given that, what's the next step.

Is it more small farms operating independently or are those small farms growing to be larger small farmers?

Now I am not talking 1.5-acre farms scaling to 100 acres, I am talking about 1.5-acre farms scaling to 10 acres.

If small farms do that, what does that look like, both for this world of farming small and for each independently operated farm?

Is that scale manageable on a people-powered bio-intensive level? Or does this style of farming not scale?

It's a question being asked by one of the leaders in this movement, JM Fortier.

A few years ago JM Fortier left his 1.5-acre farm behind to start working on an experimental 10-acre farm to test the idea and validity of scaling these types of farming methods.

It's a project which has produced some answers, but one which has also produced a lot of questions, some of which are the focus of our show today.

It's all about the future of market gardening in this episode with farmer JM Fortier.

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