On the other end of the spectrum is full-speed-ahead robo-farming, in which the farmer is following the instructions of the corporation to produce not food but commodities in such a way that the corporation sits poised to make the maximum financial profit. It’s tough as hell, and in many cases impossible, to farm this way and earn enough profit to keep your bills paid and your family fed, but these farmers do exist.
Variety is one of the keys to this technique, eschewing the corporate monocultures for a revolving set of plants and animals, again, to mimic what was already happening on the land before we showed up with our earth-shaving machinery. They observe how efficacious or not their efforts are proving, and they adapt accordingly. On one end of the spectrum we have farmers like James, interested in producing the finest foodstuffs that they can, given the soil, the climate, the water, the budget, and their talent. In his spare time, he can be found at his woodshop in Los Angeles building hand-crafted items from wood, ranging from spoons and canoes to ukuleles.“propose that we consider our farmers on a spectrum, let’s say, of agrarianism. He has written five New York Times Bestselling books, including his latest, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside (Penguin Random House), Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, and The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, written with his wife, Megan Mullally.
Recent and upcoming projects include The Last of Us (HBO), The Resort (Peacock), A League of Their Own (Amazon), and NBC’s Making It (co-host and executive producer). He narrates for the audiobook of Wendell Berry’s latest, The Need to Be Whole, and voices Beef Tobin in the FOX animated series The Great North.
Nick Offerman is an actor, author, humorist and woodworker, best known as the character of Ron Swanson on NBC’s Parks & Recreation, Forest in Devs, the FX limited series from writer-director Alex Garland, Karl Weathers in the FX series Fargo, and Uncle Milty in Pam and Tommy on FX/Hulu.
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