Thank you for this great piece. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. I’m no farmer myself, more of a political philosopher, but my wife and I frequently shop at farmers’ markets, and her brother is a farmer who follows some of the methods of Joel Salatin. My experience has been that most of the regenerative farmers and “back-to-the-land” folks I meet are reacting to the environmentally destructive culture of industrial agriculture by reasserting a kind of mythic Jeffersonian ideal of individualism. I have always found this a bit ironic, as I think it is in many respects just such an individualism (exercised of course through mega political entities) that has produced industrial capitalism itself, and its collection of mega corporations and financial interests that have so hurt the environment, not to mention the health of so many people in this country. Reasserting the individualism of the small man seems to be an obvious losing battle, as well as needlessly alienating and isolating. So it is deeply refreshing to see someone learned in regenerative agriculture who is also attuned to the political and economic dimensions of the farming industry, without falling into the usual cliches about the advantages or disadvantages of either small-family-farms or big-industrial-capitalist-agriculture. The changes that our society needs, whether we’re talking about industrial workers or farmers, are big social changes; not mere changes in individual mindset or virtues, important as those may be.