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Architecture: Log Cabin

A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

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« How about some real heresy? Maybe farming isn’t an economic process that is supposed to make money. What if food production should be an activity that nearly everyone has to be involved in, like cooking or taking a bath? [...] Think of the fact that the US has more acreage in lawn than in cultivated crops.

Turning agriculture into a business that sells industrialized commodities doesn’t work very well anyway, which is why farming has so often been subsidized. [...] Crops are not really commodities. They grow in the natural world and grow at their own sweet, natural pace, one that is not easily adjusted to supply and demand, much less artificial money interest.

Critics often tell me that my idea of feeding the world with small-scale garden farms is naïve. [... But] while I’m talking crazy, what if there were a hundred million people in the United States raising a half-acre of corn as a hobby? That would add up to enough corn for all our food needs and no one would make monetary profit doing it. And wouldn’t it make at least as much economic sense as maybe a couple hundred thousand farmers spending billions to grow corn and still having to be kept afloat by government subsidies and borrowed money? [...] »

— Gene Logsdon, Letters to a Young Farmer

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