two paths, one conclusion

We're reading A Small Farm Future, by Chris Smaje, with whose admirable work we were already familiar.

It's always exciting for a researcher - and our own work, labor of love and food production as it is, has always, of necessity, partaken of the nature of research - to encounter correlative and confirmative results from other researchers.

Which is another way of saying how much we are enjoying this book, that, in its excellent defense of the place of the subsistence farm in the future of a healthy humanity, is giving well-researched arguments for farms essentially like our own. Working from the principle that God is good and life is good and here we all are so the world must be a good place susceptible of beauty and productivity when managed with love and discernment, we arrive at the same conclusions that are here well-detailed by the copious examples of this wise author and farmer.

Farming works.