[Heibges]

It's true that our agriculture system is messed up.

First we had the creation of "suburbia" after WWII, reversing a trend of hundreds of years of urbanization. It is sick how much rich farmland we have destroyed.

Then the loss of the small family farm, and the growth of the large corporate farms definitely did not help.

On small farms, you make your kids and your neighbors kids do the harvesting for free.

I'm not sure who they would get to do the harvesting in the Southern California.

And you don't just wake up one day and decide to be farmer. You are born into it, and this is another reason the loss of so many family farms was so sad.