> I guess amateur farmer is probably more accurate. Gardner is the usual term. And there is a huge chasm between gardening and farming, which is what I expect

> I guess amateur farmer is probably more accurate. Gardner is the usual term. And there is a huge chasm between gardening and farming, which is what I expect the parent is trying to get at. Myself, I grow food on hundreds of acres. Yet I wouldn't know the first thing about growing spinach on a 200 sq ft plot. It's just a completely different skill set. To try and draw an analogy that fits HN, the difference is kind of like knowing how to use your Windows PC at home and knowing how to manage a huge data centre full of 1,000s of Linux systems at work. It will be interesting to see what the future brings, but considering that we traditional farmers get a lot of things for for free (solar energy, rain, etc.), it will be difficult to beat that on cost. Depends on what you are growing, I suppose.