Small Family Farms Aren’t the Answer

The romance of neoliberal peasant farming blinds us to our collective power

Chris Newman
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9 min readJul 25, 2019

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Let’s get this out of the way, first:

  • I am a small farmer, operating on 40-ish acres in Virginia’s Northern Neck.
  • I am not paid by, in hock to, in league with, or particularly happy with Big Agriculture. I’m just a guy who’s…

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Chris Newman
Heated

Building a new, accessible, open, and democratic food economy in the Chesapeake Bay region @ Sylvanaqua Farms