Small plot farming, done to feed yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture What 90%

Small plot farming, done to feed yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture What 90% of humanity did, for centuries. Classic peasant stuff, you know. It's not fun. You depend on the food from your land to eat, so you can't afford to experiment with new methods of doing anything, or grow "cash crops" that you can't directly eat. If the rains fail, you starve. If there's a locust swarm, you starve. If your plow oxen dies, and you can't get another one, you starve.