I've become entranced by the Youtube videos of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone. I played around with the idea of starting a farm like this and the labor involved turned me against it, but I can listen to his vlogs for hours while doing yard work or painting through my wireless headphones.

There is something very human about one person teaching another person to produce food in the kind of detail he goes in to, and I think time farming lends itself to quality thinking and reasoning for a philosophically inclined intelligent person.

They are essentially rediscovering the way humanity grew greens before tractors and herbicides, but there are some new innovations that are making these farms work:

1) Growing things like romaine lettuce in holes cut in landscape tarping is eliminating weeding.

2) They are cutting time from harvest to plate by a few days, and the resulting quality is much better, and they are not using toxic chemicals to control pests and weeds.

3) They are using no-till methods, the only input is compost and earth worms do the tilling work.

I wish that there were more farms like this in my area, because I really hate the selection and price of organic produce in my supermarkets. It is very much lacking, or insanely expensive.