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I come from a farming area. When I read the drivel on HN about urban farming, my response is, "Talk is cheap" and "What are the details?" - 1/4 acre in SV star
by redis_mlc 6y ago
I come from a farming area. When I read the drivel on HN about urban farming, my response is, "Talk is cheap" and "What are the details?"
- 1/4 acre in SV starts at $1 million
- farming is a job. My family's small garden (30'x30') was like a part-time job in itself.
- when there's an immigrant farm labor shortage and unemployed locals are recruited for farm work, they don't make it to lunch on the first day - it's back-breaking and often dangerous work
Thanks to the ag insider who did the 2-part post on ag economics earlier this week.
- carapace 6y agoIt's just something I discovered on the Internet on Thursday. Could be crap for all I know. They have this doc on their website FWIW: "Farming in Philadelphia: Feasibility Analysis and Next Steps" http://www.spinfarming.com/common/pdfs/STF_inst_for_innovations_dec07.pdf http://www.spinfarming.com/common/pdfs/STF_inst_for_innovati...
- 082349872349872 6y agoOur farms were doing fine with underemployed locals. One article I've read indicates they simply used twice as much field labour as they had with guest workers, so the work was only half as back-breaking.
- redis_mlc 6y agoSerious question: what city and what year?
- 082349872349872 6y agoSwitzerland, 2020. So far I've read articles about asparagus and leeks. There are probably more stories in the ag coop magazine, but I haven't been by the coop since February, having my feed delivered instead. https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/basel-baselland/corona-ernte-spargelstecher-aus-der-region-statt-erntehelfer-aus-polen https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/basel-baselland/corona-ernt... The newbies need not work as hard as harvest workers from the east. "We're twice as many as in a normal season. So everyone has only half the work." ==== Ganz so hart arbeiten, wie die Erntehelferinnen- und Erntehelfer aus dem Osten, müssen die Neulinge aber nicht. «Wir sind doppelte so viele, wie in einer normalen Saison. Also müssen auch alle nur halb so viel arbeiten»